Plain text fine with me. Will live URLs be included? My vote is to follow the general listserv practice of no attachments.
- - - Margaret Kendrick Documentation Specialist San Francisco Museum of Modern Art mkendrick at sfmoma.org (415) 538-2681 -----Original Message----- From: Rob Lancefield [mailto:rlancefi...@wesleyan.edu] Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 9:06 AM To: mcn-l at toronto.mediatrope.com Cc: Christina DePaolo; Kendrick, Margaret; Misunas, Marla; Cathryn Goodwin Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Attachment settings... 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 -- _________________________________________________________________ Rob Lancefield rlancefield at wesleyan.edu Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University www.wesleyan.edu/dac 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459 USA tel. 860.685.2965 Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network www.mcn.edu The information contained in this electronic mail message (including any attachments) is confidential information that may be covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 USC Sections 2510-2521, intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above, and may be privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify me and delete the original message. Thank you
