At 22:55 2004-01-27 +1000, Tony Nugent wrote:
Ouch.  Pity this message wasn't simply discarded (or at least
manually reviewed) before it was distributed to the list :-(  Hmm,
it also appears to have successfully masqueraded as being sent by
Tom.  oh well.  I guess that there's not much that tomsrtbt can do
about it :)

Really, the list should just reject _ALL_ multipart or non text/plain messages. I do this on other (large) lists I manage, and it's very effective at keeping cruft off of lists - stuff some people intentionally post (pics, HTML mail, vcards, etc), and stuff that wasn't intentionally sent.


If there's ever a real need to send a file, people have places to post them on http or ftp, and just post the URL.

Tom - when you have some time, feel free to contact me offlist for specific insights. It's the least I can do to repay you for rtbt.

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 Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering
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