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Re: [LUG] Attachments ....

 

Ben Goodger wrote:
> On 16/01/07, David Brook <David.Brook@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Without wishing to cause offence, and as a person not in the 'inner
>> sanctum'
>> of this forum,   can I ask why people use attachments to post messages to
>> the LUG.??
>>
>> I, and I am sure loads of others, access Email via a windows box and we
>> have
>> a policy of refusing attachments.
>>
>> Is there a specific reason for posting in this way  ?
> 
> 
> I've never noticed such behaviour.

Your own message has embedded MIME parts (a multipart/mixed message
consisting of a multipart/alternative text/plain and text/html body
followed by a text/plain sig.) which show up in thunderbird as a
message with attachments.

James

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