Yes I think only text/plain, text/html and also message/rfc822(and sub text parts) should be allowed. Because attachments if any can be posted in form of links.
I am asking to allow text/html because Yahoo/Hotmail/MSOE, the most used e-mail clients offer rich text compose feature, and its tendency of people to use it, and probably its on by default and non-technical/newbie sender may not know how to disable it. OR if we block text/html then he/she should automatically informed(atleast 1 or 2 times) that his/her message was blocked, for it is not text/plain. But I dont know if that can be done with mailman.
Amish.
Philip S Tellis wrote: Should we block non-text messages on this list? State your opinion.
Hello,
I agree to amish's views, modern webmails or Yahoo, MSN, free webmailers have the tendency of by default composing mails in HTML format, which a end user is not really aware of.
But At the same time, we should have to have a moderator who can filter html mails and respond back 2 the mailer, to resend in Pure Text/Plain format after which mails from the sender should get rejected.
Philip we need some of your expertise on the same for writing some similar kind of filter (for warning purpose) The mail should not be sent out to the whole list in any case.
Its quite annoying to see all those html tags in the mail, most of the geeks out here tend to ignore the pain of going thru such mails :)
So my full votes for Blocking HTML mails, but at the same time i am also wanting two warnings to be sent to those who sent html mails after which his mails should be blocked on the list.
There are my humble views, i dont know on how many of you can agree on the same, but i think we should give fair chance for those who sends out HTML mails (considering them as newbies )
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On Saturday 27 September 2003 02:19 am, Mitul Limbani wrote:
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Hello,
I agree to amish's views, modern webmails or Yahoo, MSN, free webmailers have the tendency of by default composing mails in HTML format, which a end user is not really aware of.
But At the same time, we should have to have a moderator who can filter html mails and respond back 2 the mailer, to resend in Pure Text/Plain format after which mails from the sender should get rejected.
Is it possible to filter the text out of the HTML tags. on a per mail basis or will it be too much for the server to do.
that with the warning would be the best solution. either are the emails lost nor is anyone bugged but havign ot read the html tags.
rahul
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