On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 08:21:46AM -0800, Sean Straw / PSE wrote: > 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.
I agree. I've been collecting reasons why one should not use HTML (Highly Toxic to Mail Language) email. See http://www.charlescurley.com/netiquette.html II E for details. I know: I send out digital signatures on my email, which force multi-part MIME. I can esaily housebreak my mail reader, mutt, to not do so for this list. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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