Re: Hi

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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 :)
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> Really, the list should just reject _ALL_ multipart or non text/plain=20
> messages.  I do this on other (large) lists I manage, and it's very=20
> effective at keeping cruft off of lists - stuff some people intentionally=
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> post (pics, HTML mail, vcards, etc), and stuff that wasn't intentionally=
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> sent.
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> If there's ever a real need to send a file, people have places to post th=
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> 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.

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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

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