One of the spams I received today, subject: Cybergrama, looks like this: ------ begin quoted spam -------
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_NextPart_573286746526125 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Your Email Client does not support MIME encoding. Please upgrade to MIME-enabled Email Client (almost every modern Email Client is MIME-capable). ------_NextPart_573286746526125 Content-Type: text/html; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE <html> <head> <title>Cybergrama</title> <meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1"> </head> [snipped all the rest of this unsolicited HTML advertisement] ------ end quoted spam ----- I don't understand. Regardless of whatever email client I use for downloading and reading this spam message, wouldn't any normal email client display the text portion at the top of the message telling me about how my email client allegedly does not support MIME encoding? Do some "modern" email clients fail to display the normal text portion at the top of the message if an HTML attachment is present? If so, why would anyone want to use such an email client? BTW, what is meant by saying that an email client doesn't support MIME encoding? I don't even know of any email clients that are not capable of sending and receiving MIME encoded messages. I do know of some email clients that require the use of external third party programs to perform the MIME encode/decode functions, but the email client programs themselves are perfectly capable of sending and receiving MIME encoded messages. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser: http://browser.arachne.cz/
