Attachments? Re: Indented multi-line strings (was: "Data blocks" syntax specification draft)

[Peter J. Holzer]

On 2018-05-31 14:42:39 -0700, Paul wrote:
> I have heard that attachments to messages are not allowed on this list,
> which makes sense. However I notice that messages from Peter do have an
> attachment, i.e., a signature.asc file.

No this is isn't an attachment. It's a signature. Your MUA probably
displays everything it can't handle as an "attachment".
> 
> I'm just curious; why and how do those particular attachments get through?
> And should they get through, I guess? E.G., what if I attach a malicious
> file labeled as .asc?

The mailinglist software can probably distinguish between
multipart/signed and multipart/mixed.

        hp

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