Message-ID: <3EE2A863.9874801C@yahoo.com> From: CBFalconer Organization: Ched Research X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: your account t uri shd References: <3--s4$3yoy63$8 AT xax DOT p5 DOT zr8n> <3EE25091 DOT D41E0432 AT yahoo DOT com> <200306072143 DOT h57Lh7Nl030619 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 20 Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2003 03:56:04 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.90.169.33 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT worldnet DOT att DOT net X-Trace: bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1055044564 12.90.169.33 (Sun, 08 Jun 2003 03:56:04 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2003 03:56:04 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ Delorie wrote: > > > Wouldn't the simple provision of dumping all html keep this sort > > of junk out of the mailing list? Of course that won't handle the > > generalized newsgroup. > > It wasn't HTML - I already block that. Heck, I block 99.9% of the > junk that comes through. You folks only see the 0.1% that gets by, > and last time I asked, folks said that was "good enough". Alright, wrong phrase. And I'm not complaining, just suggesting. The Content-Type: field would seem to be the appropriate thing for automatic filtering. -- Chuck F (cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com) (cbfalconer AT worldnet DOT att DOT net) Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems. USE worldnet address!