benign attachments

3 posts ยท Jun 9 1998 to Jun 9 1998

From: Tim Jones <Tim.Jones@S...>

Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 14:27:50 +0100

Subject: RE: benign attachments

On Tuesday, June 09, 1998 1:13 PM, Ground Zero Games
> [SMTP:jon@gzero.dungeon.com] wrote:

it was amusing that the header says

        X-Junk-Mail-Rating: MEDIUM

The attachment was an HTML file which re-quoted the original
message but was encoded in base64 to render it nasty looking.

Several mailers on the list seen to use HTML or ASCII & RTF attachments to
quote or reply, these though a bit
annoying to non MIME aware mailers are _relatively_ benign as
the messages are usually small.

The no attachments rules are there to primarily deal with large binary
attachments which are deliberate, HTML & ASCII and RTF are mostly
configuration accidents, although they break the plain ASCII only rule. I
would counsel tolerance of the latter sort of infringement.

From: Jonathan white <jw4@b...>

Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 14:40:37 +0100

Subject: RE: benign attachments

> On 9 Jun 98, at 14:27, Tim Jones wrote:

                        TTFN
                                Jon

From: Ground Zero Games <jon@g...>

Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 14:42:41 +0100

Subject: RE: benign attachments

[snip]
> The no attachments rules are there to primarily deal with large