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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 28 Feb 2001.
[OT] mail/news binary-filtering (was: Sudden Spam Epedemic)

[OT] mail/news binary-filtering (was: Sudden Spam Epedemic)

Neil Franklin <nei...@franklin.ch.remove> writes:

> > I got 4, one of which contained 2 small jpgs, perhaps your provider
> >blocks binarys.
> 
> I sometimes get binary ones (like the one today), some get killed. I
> have not managed to detect the logic on when they get killed.

Might have something to do with size and/or mime-declaration. Seems like
some filtering-software relies on intact mime-headers, and some MUAs
don't really like standards all too much (OE comes to mind, but there
are others)...

> This is Usenet. The home of topic drift.

Ah, yes. Mind if I add that to my "under construction"-random-.sig-file?

Tilman
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From: Tilman Ahr <rio...@gmx.net>
Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
Subject: [OT] mail/news binary-filtering (was: Sudden Spam Epedemic)
Date: 28 Feb 2001 03:51:31 +0100
Organization: RiotCo, ltd.
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