RE: benign attachments

On Tuesday, June 09, 1998 1:13 PM, Ground Zero Games 
[SMTP:jon@gzero.dungeon.com] wrote:
>It also had a nasty attachment with it.... :(

it was amusing that the header says

	X-Junk-Mail-Rating: MEDIUM

The attachment was an HTML file which re-quoted the original
message but was encoded in base64 to render it nasty looking.

Several mailers on the list seen to use HTML
or ASCII & RTF attachments to quote or reply, these though a bit
annoying to non MIME aware mailers are _relatively_ benign as
the messages are usually small.

The no attachments rules are there to primarily deal with large
binary attachments which are deliberate, HTML & ASCII and RTF are
mostly configuration accidents, although they break the plain ASCII only
rule. I would counsel tolerance of the latter sort of infringement.

tim jones
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