On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 10:46:33AM -0400,
Valdis(_dot_)Kletnieks(_at_)vt(_dot_)edu wrote:
On Thu, 04 May 2000 09:27:19 EDT, Scot Mc Pherson
<smcpherson(_at_)clearaccess(_dot_)net> said:
The is an e-mail virus going around. The subject of the e-mail is
ILOVEYOU...I suggest you delete it the moment you receive it.
Somebody didn't read RFC2046, section 2, where it talks about text/plain
being *TEXT*, and application/* being *application data*.
So if your e-mail software is opening it and feeding it to Visual Basic
just because it's tagged .vbs even though it's a text/plain, you're
violating the RFCs.
I'm not pointing fingers, but.... ;)
Your mailer may be able to display it as text (mine, Mutt, certainly
can) but it is definitely propagating as type application/octet-stream, not
text/plain. Wish we could lay that one on them, but we can't.
It's also now reported to be able to propagate across IRC.
--
Valdis Kletnieks
Operating Systems Analyst
Virginia Tech
Mike
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