Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/10/30/11:09:30
DJ Delorie writes:
> You know, I could reconfigure my gateway and listserver to reject
> mail/postings of type text/html or multipart/alternative...
I think that is a great idea. There is no reason for anyone to use
these formats other than for sending binary files, which aren't
appropriate in a newsgroup in any case.
My only concern is how this would affect the mail<->news gateway. You
couldn't stop people sending HTML messages to the newsgroup, so there
is a danger that a lot of news traffic could simply end up being missed
by people on the mailing list. I presume that you would be able to set
up some kind of autoreply for these messages, explaining the problem
and telling people how to correct it? That would at least cover
newsgroup posts from those people who give valid reply addresses...
To the person who compared this with banning 1999 cars: that is a
very bad analogy. A more apt comparison would be if someone designed
a new type of car which didn't go any faster than the 1980 model,
used more petrol, and required the entire road network to be
converted to rail, preventing the older cars from being driven at
all :-)
Shawn Hargreaves.
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