[PLUG] Lost attachments sent to Earthlink customers

[Don Buchholz]

Rich Shepard wrote:
>   I have two folks who have great difficulty receiving attachments to
> e-mails I send to them. Both use Microsoft products, but I think it's their
> ISP: Earthlink. One has an earthlink.com domain, the other has a
> teleport.com domain.
> 
>   Has anyone else seen this? I send all sorts of attachments from within
> pine and it seems that only customers of Earthlink do not receive them.
> 
> Rich
> 

Don't know if it will help, but attached is a note that I wrote to myself.
Because *.DOC, *.XLS, and many other Microsoft formats are viral vectors,
Microsoft's security updates started blocking visibility of these attachments
to Outlook users.  (See Microsoft Knowledge Base 290497.)
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