On Sat, Mar 06, 1999 at 09:06:51PM -0800, Jeremy Blackman wrote:
> While I feel this is a useful option, I have heard one or two
> complaints (usually from people who like to post binary files), that
> this is a violation of their 'right to post in whatever format they
> want'.
No such right exists. The owner(s) of mailing lists are the sole
and final arbiters of what formats will be permitted. I think your
inclusion code to facilitate this is an excellent idea.
> I was curious if any of the list maintainers out there thought that
> stripping binary attachments was an ETHICAL problem?
Not in the least. Again: this decision is exclusively that of the owner(s).
> * Built-in sorting on domain, for the outgoing user list. A good thing,
> or a bad thing? It tends to REALLY improve sendmail's performance, but
> isn't that useful for qmail or Postfix. It also tends to be less
> memory-efficient. My opinion is that it should be an option (since
> sendmail IS fairly common), but disable-able for qmail and Postfix
> installations, which do their own queue optimization.
I concur with what you're saying here, but wonder if future sendmail
development will render this unecessary - which would allow you to
rip out the code, making your package smaller/easier to maintain/etc.
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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