On Dec 8, 22:36, Michael Holley wrote:
>
> > Does anybody else have trouble with routinely receiving a virus in
place
> of
> > the proper collection of messages which constitute an issue from
this
> > group?
>
> All of the messages from Tony Duell come as an attached .ksh file.
This may
> trigger your virus software
>
> His messages in the web archive are also that way.
Eh? Don't believe everything you see in a mailing list archive :-)
Something to do with the archive (and maybe the digest? Are you guys
getting the list (it's a mailing list, not a group) in digest form?) is
misunderstanding something -- and apparently so is your Outlook
Express, if it tells you that Tony's messages are anything other than
normal ASCII email.
Tony's using ELM, a perfectly respected mailer. There's *no*
attachment at all in Tony's messages, and if there were, the mailing
list would strip it off. What you're seeing are messages without a
MIME type, and something is trying to make them fit an inappropriate
mould. They don't appear on the list with any attachment when I
receive them, and messages I've had from Tony directly certainly are
not like that. They have headers like this:
From: ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell)
To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 03:04:53 +0000 (GMT)
In-Reply-To: <1070934186.3030.321.camel_at_dhcp166-138.ace.uci.edu> from
"Tom
Jennings" at Dec 8, 3 05:43:06 pm
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 PGP2]
Content-Type: text
Subject: Re: Disk hardware emulation, was Re: Grandfather system
RTE6/VM?
not like this:
> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 23:46:39 +0000 (GMT)
> From: ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell)
> Subject: Re: Disk hardware emulation, was Re: Grandfather system
> RTE6/VM?
> To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
> Message-ID: <m1ASPek-000J2AC_at_p850ug1>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
> Name: not available
> Type: text
> Size: 2441 bytes
> Desc: not available
> Url :
> http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/attachments/20031205/10cc7c9a/attachment-0001.ksh
Moreover, they have no attachments, no hooks for attachments, and
nothing other than correct ASCII headers and plain ASCII text (as,
indeed, the headers indicate). Whats in the archive is also plain
text, so whatever is deciding that it's "non-text" is wrong.
Jay, is something broken?
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Received on Tue Dec 09 2003 - 03:04:05 GMT