____/ [H]omer on Saturday 15 September 2007 16:34 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>
>> I've always wondered what these DAT files contain. Theses are binaries, IIRC
>> (I checked one), so I could never tell. For all we know, that could be
>> malicious.
>
> "Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format or TNEF is a proprietary e-mail
> attachment format used by Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange
> Server. An attached file with TNEF encoding is most usually called
> winmail.dat or win.dat and has a MIME type of Application/MS-TNEF."
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNEF
>
> It works with more than one version of Windows, therefore it is
> "multi-platform". IOW it's redundant proprietary Microsoft garbage.
Nice. Can't wait until I get some cruft like this on HTTP...
Oh, wait...
http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2005/07/16/microsoft-garbage/
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