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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:28:04PM -0600, Minnesota Slinky wrote:

> I talked to a couple of people who do beta testing for Microsoft and
> they said the issue came up a few years ago.  According to them (one
> being my father), it has to do with security and virus protection.
> Again, this is second-hand, so take it for what it's worth...

There's no possible sense in which this can be true.  Plain text
attachments do not create a security or virus risk.

Kris

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