I would hope that any bounced email contains a message that email to coder-com must be HTML free. Like it or not, legitimate posts worthy of this list sometimes contain HTML, as people sometimes post from the workplace or forget to loose the HTML for posts here. stoney`
At 10:17 AM 3/16/2002 +1300, you wrote: >[snip] > > > Most spam does contain the same stuff all over and over again, the so > > called unsubscribe feature (wich of course does not work and only > > generates more spam). Perhaps make something with procmail that > > checks the contents of the mail and from there put suspicious mails > > aside to be send into the list later when they turn out not to be spam. > > > > Kev himself said that html posts are not allowed, so maybe indeed reject > > em right away (or simply remove any attachments so only the plaintext > > version stays alive). If someone wants to submit a file, then perhaps put > > an ftp server up somewhere that allows uploads (with certain limits off > > course). > >[snip] > >Personally, I get annoyed with the majority of html posts. they are easily >3 times the size of plain text posts. I have been watching one in another >mailing list I am on, and after 4 replies, the message is up to 117kb - >whereas the plain text version is 17kb. > >Disallowing all html email to the list would serve a double purpose, ie - >stop html email, and as the vast majority of spam is full of html crap, >would stop that too. > >I see no problem with denying html email, and see it as the best and easiest >way to avoid the majority of spam. > >Gavin Grieve >HeKTik @ UnderNet Py Fivestones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
