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Subject: Re: Blocking all attachments
From: Chip Rosenthal <chip @ unicom . com>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 00:20:51 -0600 (CST)
To: adamb @ tezcat . com (Adam Bailey)
Cc: list-managers @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <199711190509.XAA22549@quilla.tezcat.com> from "Adam Bailey" at Nov 18, 1997 11:10:18 PM

Adam Bailey writes:
> The problem is, attachments are not really a standard.

Eh???  base64 encoding is a formal standard.  uuencode encoding is
a defacto standard.  Either is easily recognized and reliably
handled.

The folks who run binary scanning 'bots (I got me one o' those!)
prove it every day.

I proved it to myself when I wrote the binary striping code for
the Deja News NNTP server.  Believe me, this is not rocket science.

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