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February 2001, Week 2

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Wirt Atmar <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 12 Feb 2001 14:56:04 EST
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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

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