Good thinking.  I have the same problem.

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From:   Jerry Cupples
Sent:   Thursday, May 14, 1998 11:44 AM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        [TN] GEN: attachment files on TechNet postings

Fellow TN'ers,

My Eudora Pro 3.1 is not dealing with certain email attachment files on
postings to TechNet the past few days.

These are ususally named something like:

rfc822.txt 6
vcard.vcf 29
ATTRIBS.BND
att1.unk 9

It seems that these attachments are sometimes uuencoded, and that in some
cases th result is that my mail program stops downloading messages, or even
hangs up.

It has been suggested by TechNet insiders that my software is to blame, and
that I "contact my system administrator for a software upgrade". Since I of
course know I have the best computer in the world with the latest software,
and would never let anyone from MIS touch my treasured 20th Anniversary
Mac, this is not the desired answer.

So I put this question to you...

Why not change the mailserver software to strip all email attachments
before remailing postings to the list?

It seems to me that most of these are some sort of bell and whistle thing
for email display which some new mail programs generate. I don't need that,
myself, it just bloats the hard drive further.

The effect would be that it would prevent the attachment of resumes, GIF's
and other such stuff going out to the list, but my thought is that this
might be a good thing. I cannot recall the distribution of a useful
attachment via this listserver.

Is this good thinking, or bad?


regards,


Jerry Cupples
Interphase Corporation
Dallas, TX USA (now a hockey town, too)

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