Hello Kirk and other moderators, On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 10:01:58 -0400, Kirk Lowery <[email protected]> wrote: > > When b-hebrew first moved from the University of Virginia to ibiblio.org > where we are today, we chose to force all posts to be plain text. At the > time, html email was new and there were a lot of nasty exploits that > were being embedded in html email messages. > > A couple of months ago something changed in the software system used by > our list; all of a sudden some -- not all! -- incoming email messages > were being silently discarded instead of being converted to plain text. > I followed up with the kind help desk folks at ibiblio.org and tracked > down what was happening. I'll pass over boring technical details, but in > the end I was able to get the software to pass html email to the > html->plain text converter. As you can see from the test emails, I was > less than successful in solving the problem. I'm continuing to interact > with ibiblio.org to see if we can nail down the problem. It's > frustrating in that not all html email is handled incorrectly; as you > noted, Gmail (which uses html extensively) comes through just nicely. > > The best solution is to set your email software to send plain text -- > not html -- to b-hebrew. For example, my software is Mozilla's > Thunderbird and it lets me set a default encoding for most email, but it > also let's me set encoding on an individual basis. So in my address > book, my b-hebrew contact has the option "Plaintext only" set. Or you > can continue to use your gmail account as you have been doing. > > The moderators are currently in discussion about the possibility of > relaxing our prohibition of html email. The hard part is to evaluate > what the level of risk is. What we might do is allow html email for a > probationary period. If we do chose to change policy, we will inform the > list. > > Expect a decision by the end of the week.
This may be a minority opinion, but I would much rather that HTML mail were *not* allowed in b-hebew (or other mailing lists for that matter). -- William Parsons μη φαινεσθαι, αλλ' ειναι. _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
