Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
> In reality, the e-mail world is changing, so that at some point, I'll
> be accepting HTML and MIME stuff on my lists. it's not my preference,
> but I can see this will be a reality.
Is it all MIME segments that you reject, or just non-text ones? I don't
know that it is a good idea to reject all MIME documents, because there
are likely users who can't always control whether MIME encoding is used.
This probably applies more to newcomers than long-timers, but I've got a
couple of e-mail accounts and mail agents that I use on occasion for
which I'm not sure how to prevent from sending MIME-encoded messages.
I currently filter for and reject messges with MIME segments that have
binary components (GIFs, etc), and also posts with uuencoded stuff and HTML,
What I'd really LIKE to do is set up a filter that keeps just the text-based
MIME segments and gets rid of segments like TNEF's, whatever the blazes they
are, but I'm not comfortable enough with MIME to know what I can and can't
throw away, and don't currently have the time to develop that expertise.
One area that I haven't made my mind up on yet is digital signatures. An
increasing number of e-mail users are sending digital signatures, and right
now they're not very useful to me. But in the long run that might be not
only a desirable thing but a NECESSARY one, especially if some of my
screwball ideas about how to reform the net ever gather steam.
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Mike Nolan
