"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
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Laine Houghton wrote:
What comes around goes around. With spam/virus bots becoming as hostile
to file swapping as the old mishmash of computer systems, I'm considering
going. back to BINSCII.
Has any thoughts been given to this or standards or another better
method?
Could you say more about the specific problem you wish to solve?
Is it posting binary files to binary newsgroups?
-michael
Immediately it has to do with ISPs stripping any attachment with .exe off
your email. Make it a zip used to work but they open check and strip.
Got cute and renamed it .GIF and that worked once but the next time it
reported my .exe as found and stripped the whole attachment.
Mind you these are programs I wrote not viruses and some people actually
want to send and receive such things.
I sent the .GIF to the users other email account with a terse 'trying again'
.
The bot wrote back possible spam. In the trash it went.
@56K this is beginning to suck.
On my end: The file XYZ was removed 'because we could'
If you have a need for this file please contact the sender and make other
arraignments.