On 10:52 PM 2/9/01, SRE wrote:
>Or even easier, and more completely, with demime in the alias pipe:
At 07:25 AM 2/10/01, JC Dill 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
Nope. Demime extracts formatted plain text from HTML, turns
plain text attachments into plain text, etc. The only thing
you'll lose is (from my personal experience) the Melissa
virus, the Love Bug, Word documents, and the like.
>Further, if someone expected their post to be formatted,
>by unformatting it you might have changed the content
True. That's balanced, however, against all the people using
mail tools that display the crud instead of displaying the
formatting. My list charters are specific about posting only
plain text, and they say it will be reformatted and stripped
if you post anything else. It's just a matter of setting
expectations. Not a single person has ever complained.
>As I said earlier, I don't have control over either of the
>majordomo servers that host my lists. As such, I can *only*
>configure my lists via the email interface.
Yeah, that's a problem. If possible, however, I think it's
better to reformat into plain text than to bounce messages
with attachments. Doing the best you can with what you have
rather than punishing the poor AOL and Outlook people who
haven't a clue how to turn off rich text, for example.
SRE
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