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From: "George W. Durman" <>
Subject: Re: Virus thru Lists?
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 05:41:06 -0500
References: <62.c7a5993.27d6902b@aol.com><4.2.0.58.20010306155001.00cb8e10@pop3.norton.antivirus>
In-Reply-To: <00f201c0a6be$89995ba0$3a8bed18@gci.net>


Sue, original message text, when quoted back, is not an "attachment".
The same thing applies when forwarding. The "quote" is part of the
body text. An attachment is a file that is outside of the actual message,
but is "attached" to it, in other words a SEPARATE file altogether.

SgtGeorge

At 11:17 PM 03/06/2001, Sue Renkert wrote:
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>I keep hearing people say that Rootsweb does not accept attachments. That
>may be true of some types of attachments, but it is not true of all
>attachments. When someone replies to a message, the original message is
>technically an attachment. When someone forwards a message to a list, the
>original message is an attachment. In fact, when a person subscribes to a
>list in digest mode, every message comes to the subscriber as an
>attachment.
>Can someone please clarify this issue?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Sue
>(snip)
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