[pmmail-list] A better explaination of the bug with PMMAIL attachments

[Carl Gehr]

Hear!  Hear!!!!
Your analogy is almost better than my real example!

Carl

On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 14:01:24 +0100, Paul Hodges wrote:

>On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 02:05:04 -0700 (PDT), Kris Sorem Sr wrote:
>
>>  However, if Joe Average user chooses to cluelessly forward this message
>>  without checking it out, the recipient /may/ get the wrong attachment.
>
>Is it "clueless" to expect a message not to be changed if you forward
>it?  With 45 years computing experience and 20 years of active email
>usage I don't count myself as a naive user, but I would certainly
>call this behaviour a bug - as I did when it first caught me out.
>
>I don't expect (or want!) a parcel courier to open and check the
>contents of a package every time it is passed to a different driver,
>as a silly example of what you are advocating.
>
>Paul Hodges
>QBS Software Ltd