Virus Distribution via this group

From: Frank McConnell <fmc_at_reanimators.org>
Date: Tue Dec 9 13:22:18 2003

Paul Williams <paul_at_frixxon.co.uk> wrote:
> Pete Turnbull wrote:
>
> [Quoting headers from one of Tony's emails]
>
>> Content-Type: text
>> 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).
>
> This header is invalid according to RFC 2045, because it should
> contain a type and subtype (in this case, it should be text/plain).

Please read section 4 of RFC 2045, then try to find the
"MIME-Version:" header in Tony's messages, then you may understand
that Tony's mailer isn't sending MIME messages. There is some
language in that section that permits software to interpret non-MIME
messages "according to local conventions", but if it tries to treat
non-MIME messages according to the MIME standards and loses, then I'm
free to consider it broken, and I do!

Obcctalk: RFC 1049

-Frank McConnell
Received on Tue Dec 09 2003 - 13:22:18 GMT

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