X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f996b,c81d70a83de2b4a8 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-02-27 19:19:51 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!130.133.1.3!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!p3e992371.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail From: Tilman Ahr 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. Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <6uwvaev4gg.fsf@chonsp.franklin.ch> <6ug0h0vvzl.fsf@chonsp.franklin.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: p3e992371.dip.t-dialin.net (62.153.35.113) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 983330148 26780665 62.153.35.113 (16 [35725]) X-Attribution: T.A. User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (Bryce Canyon) Xref: supernews.google.com alt.ascii-art:4462 Neil Franklin 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 -- ,--------------------------------------------------------. |Tilman Ahr | Email: rioteer@gmx.net | | | tilman.ahr@student.hu-berlin.de | `--------------------------PGP-Key available by request--�