[gui-talk] blank messages from this list

[George and Pamela Dominguez]

But why would the text of the message be in the attachment?  Pam.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "tribble" <lauraeaves at yahoo.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2008 2:41 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] blank messages from this list


>I have had Norton and also McAfee replace an attachment with a text file
> warning that the attached file has a virus. I guess I chose not to read 
> the
> text file to see what it said -- It isn't unlikely that a virus could be
> sent to the list and the recipients (me for example) would receive a mail
> with attachment that didn't pass the test of my antivirus software.
> In short, I have been just deleting blank messages from this list as I
> assume -- probably incorrectly -- that they contain a virus.
> In so doing I may be deleting legitimate messages.
> Just a precaution.
> Happy reading.
> --le
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2008 12:19 AM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] blank messages from this list
>
>
> What kind of antivirus would send out phony emails? Also, I've seen plenty
> of blank posts on lists that nearly always turn out to be mistakes by real
> subscribers to that list.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "tribble" <lauraeaves at yahoo.com>
> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 9:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] blank messages from this list
>
>
> I looked at the attachments and they contained a picture and an att.txt or
> something like that. I didn't find the text of the message, but maybe I
> didn't look far enough. I just delete the blank mail as I figured the
> attachments meant an antivirus program put them there.
> Thanks.
> --le
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com>
> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 9:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] blank messages from this list
>
>
> There are sometimes incompatibilities between mail program settings and
> what the list software expects. It has to do with the vagaries of the
> way multipart/mixed messages are interpreted. Usually, if there's more
> than one attachment, one of them is the text.
>
> I've never quite gotten to the bottom of why this happens to some people
> on some lists but some have been able to correct the problem and perhaps
> David Andrews has a bit of a clue now.
>
> Mike
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "tribble" <lauraeaves at yahoo.com>
> To: "Multiple recipients of NFBnet GUI-TALK Mailing List"
> <gui-talk at NFBnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 4:47 AM
> Subject: [gui-talk] blank messages from this list
>
>
> Hi all --
> Has anyone else been getting blank messages from this list? If someone
> is
> posting messages and isn't aware they are coming across blank, please
> check
> what is coming back when you post.  I looked at the message carefully
> and
> there was an attachment on it, which I thought might contain something,
> but
> it only had something that looked computer or list generated.
> Just wondering if there is a list problem.
> Cheers and happy thanksgiving.
> --le
>
>
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