On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 00:22:36 -0500, John Foster wrote: > I have noticed that a lot of forwarded e-mails from a lot of different > site are unreadable at least the appendages are. They all seem to show > up as a paperclipped item and when I try to open them ,I see the message > "application_ms-tnef" I have no idea what that means
It indicates the MIME type. From http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types/application/vnd.ms-tnef it looks like "application/vnd.ms-tnef" is the proper MIME type. > They are usually some type of joke or funny pictures sent to me by my > neice, but I have seen it on others. I am guessing that this is some type > of Microsoft propritary crap. It looks that way; from its description it sounds like a wrapper that's useless on non-Microsoft systems. Ray -- UNFAIR Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didn't manage. See also DISHONESTY, SNEAKY, UNDERHAND and JUST LUCKY I GUESS. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
