On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 10:46:33AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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.... ;)
Your mailer may be able to display it as text (mine, Mutt, certainly
can) but it is definitely propagating as type application/octet-stream, not
text/plain. Wish we could lay that one on them, but we can't.
It's also now reported to be able to propagate across IRC.
> --
> Valdis Kletnieks
> Operating Systems Analyst
> Virginia Tech
Mike
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