Majordomo doesn't recognize MIME

[Rick Pam]

I gave the info to the person, and haven't heard back,so assume it's 
ok.  This did spur me to check that my Eudora is configured for plain text 
(it wasn't).

I posted a summary to partners at lists

Thanks for all your help, Stewart and friends.

Rick

At 08:12 AM 03/14/2002 -0800, Stewart M. Hersey wrote:
>Thanks Heather!
>
>Rick, is everything working out now?
>
>*S*
>
>At 11:12 PM 3/13/2002 -0800, Heather wrote:
> >> Folks,
> >>
> >> Would someone like to explain this issue to Rick, please?
> >>
> >> Stewart
> >
> >It's one of the FAQ at http://www.linuxgazette.com/
> >
> >We get people trying to send us email in plaintext+HTML all the time;
> >most of the answerfolk there refuse to answer such messages, but the more
> >kindly of us pass them the link.
> >
> >Mail list servers should not be expected to handle MIME encoded attachments
> >during administrivia handling - it's too much of an obvious place to find
> >serious processing bugs that may lead to either root or mail-admin exploits.
> >
> >  . | .   Heather Stern                  |         star at starshine.org
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