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Hi cody,
what the multi-part mime means is that this is a message with
attachments as well as a body.  some people write the message in
a seperate file then attach it to a message.  This is one way to
unnecessarrilly produce multi-part mime encapsulated messages.

If you look on the lines following the stuff about multi-part,
you'll see something like text plain or html or some other
application. listed.

If it says text plain, then you're pretty safe reading on.  If
you see application octave stream, or executable or something
else weird, then you're justified in trashing them immediately.

the only reason to care at all is that a friend or somebody you
actually care about might  send you a safe email which has been
generated using an attachment as discribed above.

Of course if somebody should actually want to send you a
legitimate email with a legitimate attachment like a word or audio
file, then they should detail in the first part which should be
in txt, what the attachment is, what file format it is, and what
the name is.

If you don't see clearly labled stuff like that, then send it
where it belongs.

Another thing that triggeres trashing for me is html messages
without a plain text body first.

If you can't say it in plain text, so far as I am concerned it
isn't worth saying.

Keep on trashing the trash.

Tom Fowle


Net-Tamer V 1.13 Beta - Registered


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