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RE: THe Value Of Following Standards... (was Re: VIRUS WARNING)

2000-05-04 12:40:02
This is what happens when a software gient makes up the rules as they go
along, all in the name of making the umm user err happy, Now i will spend
£30.00 on anti-virus software :-) 

-----Original Message-----
From: Magnus Danielson [mailto:magda(_at_)netinsight(_dot_)se]
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 4:24 PM
To: Valdis(_dot_)Kletnieks(_at_)vt(_dot_)edu
Cc: isp-wireless(_at_)isp-wireless(_dot_)com; ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
Subject: Re: THe Value Of Following Standards... (was Re: VIRUS WARNING)


From: Valdis(_dot_)Kletnieks(_at_)vt(_dot_)edu
Subject: THe Value Of Following Standards... (was Re: VIRUS WARNING)
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 10:46:33 -0400

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.... ;)

You are missing the point here, this is user friendliness, the user is
allowed
to do whatever he/she wants, even in others equipment with others data. ;)

It does make box managment so much easier ;)

Cheers,
Magnus



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