Klarinet Archive - Posting 000591.txt from 1997/06

From: Mark Charette <charette@-----.com>
Subj: Re: formatting oddities (was orchestral excerpts)
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 09:15:37 -0400

Robin Fairbairns wrote:
> > Content-Type: application/ms-tnef
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>
> Things like this cause mail readers like mine to stumble, cough, and
> generally waste my time. I presume the ms part of the application
> type signifies microcruft: but what on earth is tnef? Is there some
> vitally important information being sent me that I'm inevitably
> losing?

Nah - misconfigured mail gateways are spewing this junk to the
outside world. The MS tnef stuff is just a base64 rehash of the
message that was sent.

This kind of junk should be stripped at the originating site, or
possibly stripped by the klarinet listserv (but it's a bit harder
to at the listserv end). You might want to let the sender of this
stuff know that it's coming out of their mailers; since *their*
mailers understand it stuff, it doesn't show up as a problem.

One of these days I'm going to put up a series of pages on sneezy
explaining the Internet, mailing lists, and mailers especially
targeting musicians - it's no harder than coordinating your fingers
all over the $%)(&$ clarinet keys :-)
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Mark Charette Webmaster, http://sneezy.mika.com/clarinet/ - the
MIKA Systems, Inc Clarinet Info Pages . For Klarinet help, send
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