Re: Happy99 and list config stuff

From: HEMI@charter.net
Date: Mon Mar 15 1999 - 22:10:51 EST


Hey Jon -

I use Eudora Light , 3.0.5 , 32-bit , and when I saw the happy99 it was not
an attatchment , but it seemed to have been decoded and all I got was a
bunch of text of nonsensicle crap , like instead of making an attatchment ,
it read it as the body .

At any rate , it seems that I missed that bullet .

At 05:43 PM 3/15/99 -0500, you wrote:
>
> Regarding the happy99 thing... Someone asked why it went through to the
>list since the list doesn't accept attachments. As it turns out, Happy99
>uses uuencode to insert itself into messages. Most mailers treat uuencoded
>text the same as an attachment, so most people probably wouldn't notice any
>difference between this and a MIME attachment. (I didn't notice anything
with
>Eudora Pro, anyway.) I was puzzled as to how it got through until I took
>a look at the actual digest from the list server and saw it was uuencoded.
>
> Anyway, I've added an exclude rule to the list which will look for this
>happy99 worm and bounce any posts which contain it. I just tested it and it
>appears to work. So, hopefully this will not be a problem again. :-)
>
> And speaking of the list configuration... I don't know if anyone else has
>noticed, but it appears the "sacraficial top line" demon is dead. :-) The
>buffnet tech thought it might have something to do with the additional
headers
>included with every message. When I looked at the config file, the headers
>were right up against the "END" marker, so I put a blank line in there.
Since
>then, I haven't noticed any more mangled messages. Woohoo! :-)
>
>
> -Jon-
>
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