Folks;
A quick comment; I was somewhat sarcastic last week when agreeing with
some posters that this list is dying. It has been clearly proven that those
skeptics are dead wrong, and this list is quite vibrant. Looks to me the
glass here is much more than half-full, no matter what some perceive!
On to the subjected topic. We run some lists with digests attached (as
well as a couple that are _only_ digested...don't ask), and routinely reject
all attachments (yes, I know, but I figure if someone is silly enough to be
attaching a vCard to every email, why should I waste the processing power to
strip it off?). We also, because we send digests out as text/plain instead of
multipart/digest (it's an historical thing; our users are older and every
time I tried to change people yepled that their clients were exploding the
digests), reject HTML email.
(*sigh*) First AOL 6.0 is brain-dead enough not to PERMIT sending
plain-text email, but now MSN Companion (those silly little web appliances)
joins in. Completely ignoring the argument that HTML email is or is not a bad
thing, what are you folks doing about it? Accepting it as HTML email?
Stripping the HTML (deMIME)? Rejecting it and copying the user's ISP if it's
one of those who use propriatary systems to diosallow plain text? Having your
users complain to their ISPs?
Or am I the only one who gets ticked off by these Internet elephants
telling me how I should accept email? Should I just lay off the espresso? ;)
Charlie
