[NIFL-FOBASICS:558] Plain text only

From: Barbara Garner (barbara_garner@jsi.com)
Date: Tue Jun 18 2002 - 09:46:39 EDT


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A technical message: 
Because of the threat of viruses, a filter has been added to LINCS
discussion lists. File attachments will no longer
be allowed through the discussion list.   The
filter will also enforce the "plain text messages only" rule.  Email
messages sent as MIME attachments or HTML mail will be rejected (these
types
of emails include the message body as an attachment...hence the filter
rejects them).  If you send messages as or with attachments
you will receive a notice from the list server advising you that
attachments are not permitted and that you should resend their messages
as
"plain text" messages.

Implementation of this filter will greatly reduce the possibility of
virus
infected messages being passed through the discussion lists.  It will
similarly reduce the possibility of virus infected messages being part
of
the archives.

Please note that virus infected messages currently do exist in the
list
server archives.  If you have you subscriptions set to DIGEST format,
you may receive infected messages when the next digest format message
is
sent from the list server so  beware.  Once the filter is in
place infected messages shouldn't make it into the list server archives
(or
the on-line HTML archives for that matter).  Our computer person will
attempt to remove the
infected messages from the list server archive.

Barb Garner


Barbara Garner               
World Education             (617) 482-9485     
44 Farnsworth Street       fax (617) 482-0617
Boston, MA  02210 

email address: Barbara_Garner@worlded.org
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