Lee Jones <lee@FRUMBLE.CLAREMONT.EDU> wrote:
> You betcha.  MS-TNEF is Microsoft Transport Neutral Encoding
> Format.  It's a binary blob used and useful only to people
> running Microsoft's email products.  Microsoft assumes everyone
> needs these and emits them by default.

Thanks for the details; I knew what they were for but had never found a
reference on what TNEF stood for.

The only redeeming thing about it is that it should be easy to make mailing
list software detect and eliminate it.  If the mailing list were running on
a Unix box, I'd volunteer to write a script to do it, but if memory serves
MITVMA is some sort of IBM mainframe.

For that matter, eliminating all base64 and uuencoded stuff would be a good
idea.  I'm not opposed to sharing binaries, but they should be put on FTP
or Web sites, or sent only to specific recipients.

Cheers,
Eric