I'm dealing with it the same way I'm dealing with the few people who have something in their MIME setup that triggers my mailer (Eudora Pro 2.1) to treat their text as attachments. Namely, by filtering them out.
Because there were two complaints on this, I'd like to find out why. I'm using a modified version of Elm, Michael Elkins' 2.4PL24ME4 version. Among other features, this adds integrated PGP support, and uses the content-type application/pgp for it. Here is the complete header on the message I sent, as returned: : From owner-cypherpunks@toad.com Sun Sep 17 23:26:25 1995 : Return-Path: <owner-cypherpunks@toad.com> : Received: from relay3.UU.NET by yage.tembel.org with smtp : (Smail3.1.29.1 #9) id m0suQWm-000HZ2a; Sun, 17 Sep 95 16:41 EDT : Received: from toad.com by relay3.UU.NET with SMTP : id QQzhpy19217; Sun, 17 Sep 1995 16:30:47 -0400 : Received: by toad.com id AA23554; Sun, 17 Sep 95 13:28:04 PDT : Received: from yage.tembel.org by toad.com id AA23543; Sun, 17 Sep 95 13:27:55 PDT : Received: by yage.tembel.org (Smail3.1.29.1 #9) : id m0suQJV-000HYvC; Sun, 17 Sep 95 20:27 GMT : Message-Id: <m0suQJV-000HYvC@yage.tembel.org> : From: shields@tembel.org (Michael Shields) : Subject: cypherpunks as a newsgroup : To: cypherpunks@toad.com : Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 20:27:43 +0000 (GMT) : X-Dogma: Microsoft is not the answer. : Microsoft is the question. : No is the answer. : Mime-Version: 1.0 : Content-Type: application/pgp : Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit : Sender: owner-cypherpunks@toad.com : Precedence: bulk : Content-Length: 1092 I think that it must be the content-type that is causing problems, as the rest of the message is completely standard. To the people whose mailers broke out in hives at that message: Do you get the same behavior with any message having an unknown content-type? -- Shields.