According to the listproc admin here at Cornell, it's not possible to filter out html and attachments with their current setup. After their next scheduled system upgrade (~6 months), that might be an option, but I wouldn't bet on it.
Julia says it is possible to obtain a digest from yahoogroups: --- The digests from yahoogroups filters out attachments (just indicating at the end of the message that an attachment was there: [This message contained attachments]) and everything comes through as plain text. Now, occasionally a message comes through that the yahoogroups digest can't process; then you get a message [This message is not in displayable format] in place of the body of the message in that digest. Darryl was griping about one such message recently. It doesn't happen very often. Now, one possible drawback of the yahoogroups digests are that they send one out every 25 messages, so if there's a day where 125 posts are made, that's 5 digests. Then again, does anyone really want to deal with more than 25 posts at a time? Also, yahoogroups occasionally misses a post. If the Cornell listserver can filter out the html and attachments, that would be ideal, but otherwise, the yahoogroups digests are a good way to go if the html is causing problems with digests. --- Me again: So here are the possible options: If your mail client posts in html: 1) Get a free email account at hotmail or yahoo, and post from there. 2) Figure out how to set your mail client to post in plaintext (usually easier said than done). 3) Install a better mail client (not always possible). If your mail client can't handle html, or you receive digests: 1) Get your digest from yahoogroups. 2) Figure out how to set your mail client to read html (again easier said than done). 3) Install a better mail client (not always possible). One other alternative calls for a volunteer to receive incoming brin-l mail, filtering it, and then reposting it - in effect, running another mailing list server that processes mail and strips html tags and whatnot. Most of the work would be in the initial installation and setup of the server; it should be almost zero maintenance after that. Any takers? :-) As for switching ISPs, just consider how much of a hassle it would be for you if you had to switch ISPs, before asking/demanding others to do the same. :-) Eileen
