>The canals-list yahoo group is set up to prohibit attachments - it >strips them out of any emails received. > >The image in Ron Jones email was not an attachment in the generally >recognized sense - there was nothing in his email that indicated an >attachment. However what there was, was plain text that was a "uuencoded" >version of the image. Apparently, some (most?) people's email programs >recognized this and cooperatively converted it back to an image. > >So it seems there is a flaw in Yahoo's armor. Makes one wonder what >else can be done with this technique. I will pose this question on >the yahoo moderator's board. > >Anyway, if you didn't see an image in Ron's email, you should be >pleased. For those that did, perhaps there is a way to disable the >automatic decoding. If anyone knows how to do it for any common >email programs, please post that information here. > > - george [canals-list co-manager] > >www.canals.com
I probably received this attachment as I received the email on my mobile. I haven't opened it but I checked with Ron incase it was a nasty. Cor another can of worms! Sue nb Nackered Navvy
