[Tutor] Attachments

[Kalle Svensson]

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[Stephen Harris]
> Hello,
> 
> I notice blank email messages that contain attachments.
> Why is this effective communication, why is it safe to open them?

I'm guessing that you're referring to Dman's messages.  They have
MIME-encoded PGP signatures.  Microsoft Outlook Express (and maybe
other software, though I've never seen any) seems to get confused by
this and displays them as attachments.  This is a problem with MSOE,
as far as I can tell.

As for why it's safe to open them: Well, it just is.  In my opinion,
every attachment should be safe to open, it's just text anyway.  But
this isn't true using an insecure email client like MSOE.  My
suggestion would be to change to something more secure and robust.
Sadly, I don't have any real examples for Windows, but maybe the
Mozilla (http://www.mozilla.org/) email program would work for you.

Peace,
  Kalle
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Kalle Svensson, http://www.juckapan.org/~kalle/
Student, root and saint in the Church of Emacs.
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