On 2/10/01 7:25 AM, "JC Dill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, and no. If the entire post was in the mime attachment, you now have
> an empty post that has zero value to your list,
That's really a practical non-issue here, actually. Pretty much every mail
client that does styled text (HTML or otherwise) actually send the thing as
a multipart/alternative with a text/HTML and a text/plain part. De-mime
strips it down to the text-plain, and you're okay.
About the only e-mail I see that this doesn't work for is spam, and that's
fine by me.
> Further, if someone expected their post
> to be formatted, by unformatting it you might have changed the content
> (removed bolding or italics that emphasized certain words) and changed what
> the author said.
I have to say it, but That's Not My Problem. If they don't read my
documentation, and if they can't tell text is being de-styled by looking at
the list, I'm not going to worry about it.
> Finally, it assumes (yet again) that the admin has control over and access
> to the majordomo server.
Again, TNMP -- you have to make some assumptions at some level. To make a
change like this, you have to have access to some access point, somewhere,
don't you? In practice, de-mime doesn't require you to have access to the
mail server, but to the mail aliases, which is a lot easier to convince
someone to let you do. You dn't have to filter the entire server, you can do
it on a list by list basis by tweaking the aliases, so even if you can't
make the change yourself, you can ask an admin to, and since it won't affect
the entire server, it's a lot easier sell.
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