Re: filter large messages

2001-07-26 Thread Ari Ollikainen
At 5:11 PM -0400 7/25/01, John Stracke wrote: TRAICOVN (NW) wrote: is it possible to just filter attachments? That would block people whose mailers automatically attach their vCard. That would be an EXCELLENT side effect...

Re: filter large messages

2001-07-26 Thread Melinda Shore
At 05:11 PM 7/25/01 -0400, John Stracke wrote: TRAICOVN (NW) wrote: is it possible to just filter attachments? That would block people whose mailers automatically attach their vCard. Remind us why that would be a bad thing. Melinda (whose mailers don't automatically attach a vCard unless I tell

Re: filter large messages

2001-07-26 Thread John Stracke
Keith Moore wrote: That would block people whose mailers automatically attach their vCard. might be a good thing :) Yeah, at least half a dozen people have said this. I disagree, though; vCards improve communication by making it easier to maintain your address book, and they're usually

Re: filter large messages

2001-07-26 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 17:05:30 -0400, Keith Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: is it possible to just filter attachments? yes, for some reasonable definition of attachment, it's possible. I don't think the correct answer is to filter ``attachments''. A more plausible rule -- and one which I use

Re: filter large messages

2001-07-26 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:49:36 -0400, Keith Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: (this usually happens because the message is being sent from a MUA that normally uses a different charset, that is best encoded in base64. but it happens even if the message is entirely ASCII) Then that MUA is broken. I

Re: filter large messages

2001-07-26 Thread Jose Manuel Arronte Garcia
http://www.megacable.com.mxhttp://www.megared.net.mx - Original Message - From: "John Stracke" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 10:34 AM Subject: Re: filter large messages Keith Moore wrote: That would block people whose mailers aut

Re: filter large messages

2001-07-25 Thread Vernon Schryver
Received: by ietf.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1a) id LAA02309 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 11:40:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Jon Allen Boone [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... I'd say that there is rough consensus that the SPAM/virus damage should stop. But *where* is the running code? ... The

Re: filter large messages

2001-07-25 Thread TRAICOVN (NW)
is it possible to just filter attachments? * TRAICOVN --- http://www.traicovn.com * On Wed, 25 Jul 2001,

Re: filter large messages

2001-07-25 Thread John Stracke
TRAICOVN (NW) wrote: is it possible to just filter attachments? That would block people whose mailers automatically attach their vCard. -- /=\ |John Stracke| http://www.ecal.com |My opinions are my own. | |Chief Scientist