At 05:06 PM 2/13/99 -0800, jet wrote:
>At 01:00 AM 2/13/99 -0800, Dr. Rob Higgins wrote:
>
>>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?
>>
>I suppose we'll have to accept it, eventually, especially as so many
>people use browsers, webtv or MS products as email clients. I still
>don't like the waste of drivespace, so I filter html and any other
>attachments from going to my majordomo based list. I also consider
>it a courtesy to my foreign subscribers, many of whom pay for their
>net connection by the minute.
The biggest technical prroblem is digests, at least in Majordomo. Most MUAs will not
do the right thing with stuff shoved into messages in a digest. It is not clear that
there is a right thing.
I finally automated the common responses, like, "you sent your command to the wrong
place", and I'm generally able to automatically move people to digest when they start
to bounce and then off of the digest list, although the general bounce analyzer is a
work in progress.
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