I've written a couple of people about this, and I get conflicting answers. Here's my question. I belong(ed) to a discussion group for a couple of years. Because the posts were so frequent, I opted for the digest version. If people don't send in their e-mail in plain text, all the HTML coding and MIME junk comes across. In the last few months especially, this became intolerable, with most of the digests filling an entire page with this stuff.
I asked the list moderator to do something. He didn't write in to the list at all, until someone else did, reminding everyone to send in e-mails in plain text. Only then did he write something reminding everyone. That works for about a day. I waited a few weeks and asked again if there was nothing he could do to filter this mess out. He said he "worked all day," had not time to spend on it, suggested I start my own list, and said his server would not allow him any filtering capabilities. He uses Mailman 2.0. Is this true? He said he would have to moderate each e-mail individually and manually bounce each one back to the sender. I have read up on Mailman, and from what I can tell, Mailman does have the capability to do the automatic filtering (or whatever you call it). So is the list manager a liar, just stupid, or incompetent? Is there any scenario that would not allow Mailman 2.0 to accomplish this task and this list manager to implement this? Thanks for your answer. I ended up unsubscribing, because the junk was so intolerable. I was getting more junk than messages. --D. Bloomfield ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
