>On 7 Mar 2001, at 13:35, John Neale wrote:
>> I'm left scratching my head wondering why system administrators feel unable
>> or unwilling to put a filter on the front end which will convert HTML
>> encoded text to plain text. It's not hard.
At 05:52 AM 3/7/01, Bernie Cosell wrote:
>Just to make clear, it *IS* hard. It is not hard to unwrap the MIME
>sections and hack away the HTML tags and let the devil take the hindmost,
>but it is close-to-awful to actually try to do something reasonable
Ah, Bernie, you haven't read my 57000 posts on the subject:
Demime home page: http://scifi.squawk.com/demime.html
Demime perl script: http://scifi.squawk.com/demime.stable
Demime config file: http://scifi.squawk.com/demime_junkmail.cf
Demime email list: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Put it in a pipe, you're done. It spews forth FORMATTED plain text
that approximates the HTML ratshit that came in, it flushes all
those viral attachments even if they're uuencoded without benefit
of a MIME type, it flattens plain text attachments into inline text,
basically doing effortlessly all the things you say are hard. As a
side benefit, it can optionally delete Yahoo-esque sig block ads.
I switched sides of the argument when I found demime.pl,
you should give it a try! Any list host that won't consider
installing it should be replaced with one who understands
bandwidth and security.
SRE
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