At 12:25 AM 2002-03-09 -0500, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: >If everyone seems to want to filter them out of mailing lists, perhaps >there's some moral in that.
I wrote a program called "demime" that lives in a pipe ahead of all my lists. It strips out mime, leaving plain text, removing attachments, alternate sections and the like. It also will remove advertising footers that people like yahoo and Juno don't pay me to redistribute or to store in my archives (and my own footers that people can't be persuaded to snip). :-) There are a number of people running it - if you are interested, I suggest you check http://scifi.squawk.com/demime.html, and join the mailing list. >I don't think, no, that HTML email is at all good. MIME, yeah, no >problem; there are *standards* there. There is *no* standardized way >to wrap an HTML email so that you can do anything intelligent with it, >which is inherent, I think, in the (lack of) design thereof. I agree. Now add that to my urge not to allow people to distribute viruses and worms via my lists and many people's inability to do anything but sending plain text (what do you mean I didn't send plain text? This is plain text, it just has some different colors and fonts and stuff. Don't be silly.) or to tell plain text from mime, and it is essential, in my opinion, to have some tool that can convert the user's text back to plain text. It is written in Perl, by the way, sorry about that. I know Perl better than I know Python. There are people who have been using demime for years. I have been using it for years. It should *not* be used on the address that catches bounces, but it can be used in front of your command alias and your mailing list submission alias. -- War is an ugly thing, but it is not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made so by the exertions of better men than himself. -- John Stuart Mill Nick Simicich - [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers
