SCO going after BSD???

[Harald Schmalzbauer]

On Thursday 20 November 2003 05:28, Minnesota Slinky wrote:
> 
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> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Gregory Sutter
> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 7:39 PM
> To: SWIT
> Cc: chat at FreeBSD.org; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: SCO going after BSD???
> 
> On 2003-11-19 20:11 -0500, SWIT <mark at s-wit.net> wrote:
> > is this a unix thing or what.
> >  many times i get messages from the list were the message is an
> attachment
> > and not in the email.
> > was curious as to why.
> 
> The messages you see as attachments are messages that have been PGP
> signed to prove their authenticity.  The problem is with Outlook
> Express.  Not only does it fail to support PGP/MIME (many programs
> don't support PGP/MIME and still can display PGP signed email
> correctly), but it is actually broken.  Outlook Express ignores the
> following MIME headers in the message:
> 
>   Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
>   Content-Disposition: inline
> 
> These headers show that the part is not an attachment but should be
> displayed inline, and that it contains pure text that doesn't need a
> special handler to be displayed.  Why Outlook Express fails to
> recognize this, and why Microsoft fails to issue a patch to fix the
> problem, is unknown.
> 
> [
> Response paraphrased from:
> http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2003-September/020155.html
> ]
> 
> Greg
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> 
> 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.

Yea, of course I undertand that they're concentrating on text/plain viruses. 
First they have to get this problem fixed, then they'll perhaps have a look 
at executables. And if they make bulbs, darkness will be standard...

SCNR

-Harry

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> Again, this is second-hand, so take it for what it's worth...
> 
> Eric F Crist
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