I couldn't agree more............
Gary

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wirt Atmar" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 7:56 PM
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Attachments


> Curt writes:
>
> > I don't see a problem with excluding all attachments on this kind of a
list.
> >  AFAIK, attachments are just extra junk that is used when cut and paste
> can't
> >  be figured out.
>
> Reading over my own posting, it's easy to see that I wasn't clear enough.
The
> problem with using understatement is that it is often too subtle and too
> easily misunderstood.
>
> In fact, I've become a fairly firm believer that all attachments should be
> stripped off of all email travelling through all public
listserver/remailers
> -- and that the only safe way to conduct business anymore is to return to
> text-only files (no HTML, no VBS, no MIME encodings).
>
> Wirt Atmar