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Subject: Re: idea: content filtering
From: David Terrell (dbtmeat.net)
Date: Wed May 10 2000 - 15:39:35 CDT

On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 11:05:54AM -0700, Dan Hollis wrote:
> On Wed, 10 May 2000, Lars Hecking wrote:
> > But such embedded uuencoded/base64/binhex files don't auto-execute
> > in the LookOut! RVEE, do they? If they don't, I wouldn't worry.
>
> Yes, they do. Thanks to the preview pane, that M$ helpfully provided.
> Everything will auto-execute just by viewing the message. And outlook is
> very helpful in undoing almost any kind of encoding.

Recent versions of outlook don't autoexecute anything in the preview
pane. They just show you text or HTML markup translated by IE in
the "Internet Zone" (no local privs).

Eudora is another story. 

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