Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 08:52:02PM -0700, ben wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 April 2002 08:39 pm, Gary Turner wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 22:17:21 -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> > >begin ben quotation:
> > >> reiterate them. as for the modification, i have no idea what ms-tnef is,
> > >> much less why it should or shouldn't be permitted. since you apparently
> > >> do, what should its status be relative to desired propriety on the list?
> > >
> > >It's a Microsoft proprietary standard for encapsulation of MAPI
> > >messages. It's been discussed in this list as recently as yesterday and
> > >today.
> >
> > It has been referenced, but neither discussed nor described. This is
> > the first definition of what it is that I've seen. All I've known is
> > that looking at it raw, it is not text that I can read, so out it goes.
>
>
> 1. no spam
>
> 2. no html, ms-tnef (?)
>
> 3. wrap text
>
> with reference to ms-tnef, is this a reasonable and workable prohibition?
> personally, i 've never been offended by it. is it actually an impediment on
> the list?
Instead of getting into prohibitions of data formats, which will soon
grow into a very long list, just say plain text only. Regards to
ms-tnef, I certainly can't do anything with them, goes to /dev/null
immediately (same with html and most mails with attachments).
Mailing lists should be treated like usenet, only better ;-)
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Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
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