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Hi

>>>>> "Rat" == Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:

 Rat> "Benefits" of using the MIME formats:


 Rat> * Messages are potentially vulnerable to "whitespace corruption"
 Rat> by MTAs that either add or remove whitespace, causing an
 Rat> otherwise valid message not to pass a signature check.

I have never heard of this [but I don't stay up to date on MTA
technology]. Does this kind of thing happen often? Which MTAs are
known to exhibit this behavior?

 Rat> * In general, attachments suck.

Well, maybe, but they can be useful. If idiots use email for file
transfer, I'd rather have an attachment than an inline document.

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