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From: "Ian Westergaard" <>
Subject: Re: [DK] Is Default MIME?
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 07:55:44 +1200
References: <05d601c6cdf0$7cc77790$6401a8c0@D94RHD21><mailman.5769.1157079551.23821.denmark@rootsweb.com><p04330100c11dd2fa9947@[192.168.0.110]><7.0.1.0.0.20060901091056.01ade398@earthlink.net><05d601c6cdf0$7cc77790$6401a8c0@D94RHD21><5.1.1.5.2.20060901123720.02a750e0@cooper.physics.ucla.edu>


If you are going to receive messages in MIME or HTML make sure your anti
virus is up to date - graphics, audio files, videos and
such can contain nasties! - Don't rely on Rootsweb to filter them out.

I only receive email in plain text except from people that I can trust.

Ian Westergaard
In Cloudy & Mild Central Otago
New Zealand


----- Original Message -----
From: "D.L. MacLaughlan-Dumes" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2006 7:42 AM
Subject: Re: [DK] Is Default MIME?


> At 12:31 PM 9/1/2006 -0700, you wrote:
> >Hi Elsie,
> >
> >Maybe someone will explain it to us.
>
> MIME is Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, a mail protocol that allows
> non-ASCII characters and elements (like graphics, audio files, videos and
> such) to be sent via mail programs over the Internet.

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