Re: Eliminating Virus Spam

[Scott Lawrence]

Vernon Schryver wrote:

> Still, there are other good reasons why the IESG should add something like
> the following to sendmail.cf on odin.ietf.org to reject multi-part junk:
> 
>      HContent-Type: $>+Check_CT
>      SCheck_CT
>      R$*multipart$*              $#error $: 553 reject multi-part junk
> 

That seems rather heavy-handed; I've often found the vcard 
attachments to be quite handy, for instance.  The IETF produced the 
MIME standard that defines these things, after all.  The multipart 
mechanism is not itself responsible for the bad ways in which it is 
used.