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[D B <geggam692000 () yahoo com>]

I'm by no means a security expert nor do I want to be,
but while I read this list at 3 am my mind wanders and
I wish for someone from experience to explain to me
why any virus can infect any mail server / user  when
those administrating a mail server can make a mail
server handle mail in the manner I pasted a snippet of
from my own in-box.

( obvious designator )
****************snippet****************

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

------=_NextPart_000_0012_FAA048F2.06F42141
Content-Type: text/plain;
        charset="Windows-1252"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

The message cannot be represented in 7-bit ASCII
encoding and has been 
sent as a binary attachment.


------=_NextPart_000_0012_FAA048F2.06F42141
Content-Type: application/octet-stream;
        name="message.pif"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment;
        filename="message.pif"

TVqQAAMAAAAEAAAA//8AALgAAAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAqAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

****************snip***************
( end of obvious designator )




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