That's almost what I'm doing right now - every time a person posts a message in HTML they get a rejection notice explaining the problem. Usually people will try to fix it and repost a couple of times, often failing to solve the problem, then quit. The idea solution would be for the Mailman software to strip out HTML like Yahoogroups or Listserv, but instead it's set up to trash messages rather than strip them.
ac Richard Siddall wrote: > Andy Carvin wrote: > [snip] > >> >> 4. The amount of time I spend moderating list messages has doubled, if >> not tripled, solely due to dealing with this problem, and it is >> hampering my ability to provide other more important types of >> assistance to list members. >> > [snip] > > Well, if you decide to stay with text-only, couldn't you run a script in > your MTA that detects incoming non-text e-mails and bounces them with an > explanatory message containing a URL that links to the list policy? (The > web page might explain how to reconfigure common e-mail clients to send > text to particular recipients.) > > Bouncing in real-time might encourage some posters to resubmit their > messages, unlike having the moderator bounce your message several hours > later. > > Regards, > > Richard Siddall > > P.S. FWIW, I vote for text-only, but I'm not a member of your target group. > _______________________________________________ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. -- ----------------------------------- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media & Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldivide.net http://www.tsunami-info.org Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com ----------------------------------- _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
