At 5:22 AM -0400 2004-07-17, Don Saklad wrote:
Here's an example of contrary Boston city council's
public records that city of boston city council offices are
not willing to make available on the web with the full text
of the public document nor by email formatted in plain text ASCII
Note that there are some freely available programs to convert Microsoft Word documents to HTML and other forms. For example, see the program "wv", <http://freshmeat.net/projects/wv/>. You could use programs like this (or StarOffice) to do the conversion and then post the resulting documents to the mailing list.
It shouldn't be too hard to work up a way to automatically pull down the latest documents, convert them, and then post the conversions (or the links to the conversions) to the mailing list.
However, all this would need to be done outside of Mailman. There are no facilities within the current version to execute arbitrary format conversion programs (such as wv), and I think this would represent a serious security risk if someone tried to add the feature. Supporting simple automated HTML conversion via lynx is potentially dangerous enough, I don't think anyone would want to go beyond that.
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