On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Dr. Rob Higgins wrote:
> I seem to be getting more and more messages in dual format
> plain/text and html/text on the lists I facilitate.
>
> My pine email program still makes me go through several extra
> steps to read the plain/text portion.
>
> I've requested that only plain/text be sent to my lists (and
> plain/text only to majordomo in particular).
>
> But I'm wondering what the status of this issue is on other
> lists. Are other listserver packages handling html/text
> ok? And is it reasonable to allow messages to be blown up
> to over 3 times their original size by the inclusion of html?
What I've done on one of the lists I manage is to explicitly trap these
sorts of things. Anything with a 'Content-Type: multipart*' or
'Content-Type: text/html' gets caught by the list fiters, and at some
point a note gets dropped to whoever sent the mail asking them to try
again without the cruft. I expect that as long as it makes the digests
look ugly or unreadable, I'll do this.
I also filter out any mail with uuencoded chunks in 'em, primarily to trap
those annoying winmail.dat things (and the inevitable wave of
read/unread/recieved notices they generate to the listowner address). That
it catches one of the latest windows trojans/viruses is a happy side
effect. :)
Dan
