On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > I don't think that's a good idea. I think "looks like text" is > difficult. I don't know how Japanese resources look like, nor how > Keyboard layouts in Spanish. I'd rather go with the file extension.
file(1) is your friend. Mime types are completely unreliable, and I see no point into forcing people use specific extensions. > How about this - I'll keep them as attachments. If we find out people > can't reply to them, we'll change it? I'll also make sure that messages > that have inline patches are passed as is, so that your favourite method > will still be supported. Sounds good? No, it doesn't. I can't easily reply to a message with an attachemnt, in that the attachemtn is not being quoated in the reply. Not Good (TM). I see no point in having such a filter if we don't do inlining, really. > I think they way people learn what to do is by receiving feedback. This > is a chance to automate the feedback mechanism. I wouldn't worry about it for now. Let's see what we get out of the filter first, I have a strong suspicion there will be _very_ few emails that would need 'bouncing'. At which point an email from a real person is more polite and a better feedback. If we keep having a problem, we can think of automating it, but until then it's a solution looking for a problem. -- Dimi.
