Klarinet Archive - Posting 000366.txt from 2002/11

From: "William Semple" <wsemple@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Attachments to messages to this list....
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 19:41:37 -0500

Speaking of attachments, I tried to send a .jpg file, but it was rejected?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Simicich" <njs@-----.com>
Subject: [kl] Attachments to messages to this list....

> Someone noted that I was sending attachments to this list and that they
> thought that the might contain viruses. I found that hard to believe and
> double checked, sure enough, (I filter the messages from this list through
> demime) that was being triggered for my own posts, so they had attachments
> as they were coming back from the klarinet list. People responding to my
> posts had no such attachments.
>
> I record all raw messages that I get and keep them for a couple of days.
I
> looked at my raw message recording. I am sending in single part top level
> text/plain, the list software, for whatever reason, cannot recognize my
> postings as text/plain such that it can just add the message footer -- it
> may be because I use grisoft's excellent free antivirus program and it
adds
> an x-tag to the parts as it checks them, and it alters my messages to
> multipart/mixed to add a text/plain footer at the end. Eeech. The
> messages therefore have a text/plain body and a text/plain attachment.
>
> Anyway, someone noted that I was sending an attachment and they thought it
> might carry a virus. No. there is no virus carrying attachment.
>
> So, please: Those attachments were not there when I sent the mail,
> sorry. And I do not think that anyone has managed to figure out how to
> make a text/plain section (unless it contains uuencode or binhex) carry a
> virus.
>
> --
> If you doubt that magnet therapy works, I put to you this observation:
When
> refrigerators were first invented, in the 1940s, they were rather
> unreliable, but then they became significantly more reliable. The basic
> design of the refrigerator did not change, and we all know that quality
was
> important back then, so I doubt that newer refrigerators are made better.
> Refrigerators have become more reliable because of the rise of the
> refrigerator magnet.
> Nick Simicich - njs@-----.com
>
>

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