From: Matthias Andree (ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de)
Date: Thu Apr 03 2003 - 16:01:23 CST
Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
> Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
>
>> If he wants to hide binaries from the user agent, then he should take
>> care that the administration of the relevant subhierarchy makes a clear
>> distinction between the binary groups and the textual groups. If he
>> needs user agents to filter, he'd better talk to his ISP and have him
>> include Content-Type in the overview.
>
> For good or ill, essentially no one uses correct MIME tagging in binary
> Usenet groups. Everything is either uuencode or yEnc.
I couldn't care less about body contents. The "I love you signature
virus" hoaxes have been caused by the automatic detection of uuencode
attachments (or something like that)... in-band signalling (here:
in-body) has often caused grief.
-- Matthias Andree