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to: Mike N.
from: Jeff Shultz
date: 2004-10-25 18:04:04
subject: Re: Thanks a #$(.)#$ lot, Microsoft...

From: Jeff Shultz 

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:21:00 -0400, Mike N. wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:30:08 -0700, jeff 
> wrote:
>
>>Apparently this is also seen in a _lot_ of YahooGroups/Mail stuff as
>>well. Terrific job Microsoft - you've come up with a
"feature" that is
>>going to make it just that much harder to block executable files in
>>e-mail.
>
>    It's nearly impossible to reliably block executables with Regex.   You
> almost have to do a full RFC protocol decode of the mime headers.

Which doesn't change the fact that MS has introduced this little wonder
where it doesn't need to be - and it's breaking stuff.

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