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

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

On Thu, 04 May 2000 09:27:19 EDT, Scot Mc Pherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  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.... ;)

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                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Operating Systems Analyst
                                Virginia Tech