Les Niles wrote:
> Translation systems, whether speech recognition, natural language > translation, or reformatting the content of email, are > fundamentally imperfect. That's why worrying about making an HTML > filter intuitive and easily configurable is important -- those > attributes are exactly what make a translation system usable and > useful. > > I think the various types of "filtering HTML" fit into a couple of > broad categories. One is translation: converting HTML content into > some other format in which most or all of the semantic content is > maintained. The other is stripping: removing HTML sections > entirely. The former is harder, more error-prone, and open to > incompatible interpretations of what constitutes the "right" > translation. Stripping, OTOH, is simpler, more predictable, and > can usefully be applied to other MIME types that a list admin might > deem verbotten, but not nearly as powerful. I'm suggesting that > both types of filtering are useful in MM's processing, but can and > probably should be presented as separate functions in the > configuration UI since their roles and characteristics are rather > different. Very well put. --jb -- James J. Besemer 503-280-0838 voice http://cascade-sys.com 503-280-0375 fax mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers
