From: Karl-Heinz Zimmer (khz@kde.org)
Date: Thu May 09 2002 - 18:21:11 CEST
On Thursday 09 May 2002 09:30, cglur@onwe.co.za wrote:
> > > Michele> It is possible simply to refuse emails with attachments in
> > > this Michele> mailing list? Pure text format would be the best.
> > >
> > > That is tricky. However we can enforce that the posts _has_ to to be
> > > in text/plain format. This might lead to others getting
> > > bitten. This will make sure that only mail with content-type:
> > > text/plain will get through to the list ?
>
> Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote:
> > what about the following: Allow all messages which are either having
> > top level Content-Type=3Dtext/plain or
> > Content-Type=3Dmultipart/alternative while containing a text/plain part
> > in their multipart section?
> >
> > By doing so we could receive all mails that are either just plain text
> > _or_ are a combination of plain and html text - and there are _lots_
> > of mails of the 2nd type.
> >
> > Would that be possible?
>
> Yes, and there are _lots_ of viri and spam mails.
> This is not about 'majority vote' driven by the masses of lowest common
> denominator.
>
> What are your good reason(s) to post html text ?
Sorry about cag irritation: I do _not_ send HTML messages, believe me! :-D
However there are lots of people sending HTML because some Windowls MUAs
by default send HTML and plain text in Multipart/Alternative messages.
Of course my MUA is configured not to show the HTML but just the plain text
version of such content and I assume many people set up their proggrams the
way.
My asking whether it might be possible to have a /smart/ filter which would
only stop messages _without_ plain text content was only an idea of mine
how to get a more perfect solution: If that's not possible I have no
problems with the first proposal: for me it is OK to get only the messages
which have a top level Content-Type=text/plain.
Cheers,
Karl-Heinz
> -- Chris Glur.
>
> * no html
> * no attatchments
> * no top posting
> * no 'line wrap expectation'
>
> Resist the M$, Macdonald, Disney: 'dumbing down mentality' !
>
>
>
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