Well, if the software can do the heavy lifting, then it wouldn't matter
*what* people did. That's probably easier inthe long run, Andy, than setting
yourself up to bird-dog this or trying to explain to people "well, if you
have this software, click here and then here" to do plain text. Pam is
right, I think: most people don't know or pay attention to that. I get HTML
stuff all the time that i'd prefer not to have and just reformat when i do
replies. but if the s-ware could yank out the tags, that would make the most
sense to me. that doesn't sound like a difficult task, either. there is perl
already that disallows html in guestbooks and the like, so it doesn't seem
like a huge task to write something that would fix it (i say that NOT being
a programmer and as someone who ALWAYS underestimates the effort it takes to
do programming work).
steve snow
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Carvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "The Digital Divide Network discussion group"
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Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 2:48 PM
Subject: Re: [DDN] admin: thoughts on changing policy re: html messages
> That's almost what I'm doing right now - every time a person posts a
> message in HTML they get a rejection notice explaining the problem.
Usually
> people will try to fix it and repost a couple of times, often failing to
> solve the problem, then quit. The idea solution would be for the Mailman
> software to strip out HTML like Yahoogroups or Listserv, but instead it's
> set up to trash messages rather than strip them.
>
> ac
>
> Richard Siddall wrote:
> > Andy Carvin wrote:
> > [snip]
> >
> >>
> >> 4. The amount of time I spend moderating list messages has doubled, if
> >> not tripled, solely due to dealing with this problem, and it is
> >> hampering my ability to provide other more important types of
> >> assistance to list members.
> >>
> > [snip]
> >
> > Well, if you decide to stay with text-only, couldn't you run a script in
> > your MTA that detects incoming non-text e-mails and bounces them with an
> > explanatory message containing a URL that links to the list policy? (The
> > web page might explain how to reconfigure common e-mail clients to send
> > text to particular recipients.)
> >
> > Bouncing in real-time might encourage some posters to resubmit their
> > messages, unlike having the moderator bounce your message several hours
> > later.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Richard Siddall
> >
> > P.S. FWIW, I vote for text-only, but I'm not a member of your target
> group.
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