this worries me.Forwarded attachment...

[Steve Holmes]

<HMMM> Sounds like another proprietory format to be avoided to me.

On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Kirk Wood wrote:

> The winmail.dat file is m$ electronic business card. So far nobody has
> come up with any exploit to ruin the address book. It contains extended
> information allowing a person to transmit complete contact information for
> the event that another winblows user adds them to the address book.
>
> Generally when m$ uses the extension .dat it is a bianary format that uses
> a tree structure for storage. For more complete information look up
> information on the format of the registry. That is the largest example of
> the format. HAving said this, it doesn't always hold true.
>
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