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Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks



On Wednesday 10 April 2002 09:59 pm, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> 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 ;-)

thanks for the input. so, on attachments, none? some?

  1. no spam

  2. text-only (no html, ms-tnef, etc.)

  3. wrap text

   4. no attachments ?


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