From: "Paul Ranson" 

The 'stuff' it's breaking really doesn't deserve any protection. If you're
going to do a job do it properly, don't bodge it.

Which doesn't mean that what MS are doing is 'right', just that you were
going to get caught sooner or later.

Paul

"Jeff Shultz"  wrote in message
news:pan.2004.10.26.01.04.05.129455{at}shultzinfosystems.com...
> 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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