* Stephen J. Turnbull <step...@xemacs.org>: > Sreyanth writes: > > > Also, I would like to hear more about : Boilerplate stripper AND Better > > content-filtering / handling error messages. > > Boilerplate stripping is trivial to understand. But, can anyone elaborate > > on Better content-filtering / handling error messages? > > But boilerplate stripping is not necessarily trivial to implement, > because it's not always clear what boilerplate is. I think it might > be a good idea to save it off and provide a link rather than discard > it, which leads to interesting questions of storage, shared links for > true boilerplate (storage compression of repeatedly encountered text, > yes, but more important the link will turn purple so you don't need to > click on it in the next message from that user!), and user interface > in general. > > Content filtering is mostly going to be about MIME handling: choice of > the appropriate text/* part and things like that, removing > images/video/etc where the list prohibits them, converting HTML/ > wordprocessor attachments to plain text, removing MIME parts whose > Content-Type doesn't match filename or perhaps file(1) magic in the > content, etc.
Just to mention it: IF we are going to add MILTER functionality, a MILTER would be perfect to do MIME handling. p@rick -- [*] sys4 AG http://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 Franziskanerstraße 15, 81669 München Sitz der Gesellschaft: München, Amtsgericht München: HRB 199263 Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Axel von der Ohe, Marc Schiffbauer Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Joerg Heidrich _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
