Richard et al (cc'ed folks, any opinions on the question below?),

I've just tweaked two Mailman settings:

1. View subscriber list is now set to private (admin only)

2. Content filtering now also denies .zip, .vcf, .sit, .hqx

Here's a question re: filtering. My strong preference is to kill all 
attachments (even gif and jpg) and to dumb down HTML messages 
automatically to plaintext before allowing their text content to 
post, in a way transparent to senders (no annoying error messages). 
This was what we decided to do before the site launch and thought 
we'd done, but it turned out to be unimplementable. Mailman can do 
this, but what do we think about the underlying policy question? Now 
that we can, I believe we still should. It's standard practice on 
virtually all lists I'm on (distinct from announce-only lists, where 
traffic is much lighter and only emanates from one organazitional 
sender), and is beneficial in ways I won't belabor. But does anyone 
have a strong feeling and rationale in favor of *allowing* HTML, GIF, 
JPEG etc.?

Not to open a can of worms--just don't want to be hastily unilateral.

If no one speaks up today for a change to a looser policy, Richard 
(and I think you might?), I imagine a wildcard can strip all 
attachments. I didn't see it in my quick dip into the admin interface 
just now, but maybe you know? If not, and if we do stick to the 
initial "deny all," I can peruse Mailman docs.

thanks,
Rob
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