Virus Distribution via this group

From: der Mouse <mouse_at_Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
Date: Thu Dec 11 01:37:11 2003

> Whether questionable headers mean that the emails should be flagged
> as potential spam is another matter... :-)

Well, for a long time I've been rejecting mail with Content-Type:
_and_ Content-Transfer-Encoding: but no MIME-Version:. It trips on
non-spam once every blue moon or thereabouts (well, actually, probably
more often than blue moons: maybe every six months or so) but trips
relatively often on spam.

> The world seems to have become a complex place... I miss the days of
> command-line mail clients, and if you really wanted to send an
> attachment it was a case of encoding it yourself and relying on the
> recipient knowing how to decode it...

Well...the software is stil around. Even the recipients who knew what
to do when they see a "begin 644 fnord.tar.gz" line are still around.
The trouble is, they're drowned out by the hordes who wouldn't
recognize btoa output if it bit them. :-( Nowadays you have to do
protocol first to ensure that you can agree on compression and encoding
methods. (And if I want to create a message with "attachments", I go
up and edit the Content-Type: header by hand, run the binary blobs
through "base64 -e", edit in the separator lines...and occasionally get
it wrong, but oh well.)

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