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Re: info-cvs] Re: a newbie facing tagging problem
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R P Herrold |
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Re: info-cvs] Re: a newbie facing tagging problem |
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Sat, 25 Jun 2005 03:46:53 -0400 (EDT) |
On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, address@hidden wrote:
Please do not send MIME and/or HTML encrypted messages to the list.
Plain text only, PLEASE!
Why doesn't this list run something like the demime package
to scrub HTML/MIME postings to this list, so people don't
have to be bothered with worring about how their mail client
is configured?
'I am not a number'
-- Number Six, from 'The Prisoner'
Are you truly a number?
That out of the way, I write as the closest thing to a list
admin which this list has. The list is heavily spammed, and
the target of automatic 'spambots'. A couple years ago, when
I started doing list admin, I spent several days getting the
attention of the upstream server admins, simply to undertake
getting rights in the Mailman. I have writen three following
times on issues which have arisen, with simply no response
from the upstream admins.
Sad but true.
The list is de-spamed (largely) by a pair of policies -- limit
the size of posts (which is set low enough that much
multi-part (mime-laden) email is caught and held; and posts
limited are to subscribers only. Because of the huge spam and
held load, I do not pick through that cesspool of held posts,
and they are functionally deleted.
So one answer is that I cannot add a further explicit
demimeing (in the fashion as suggested). As a matter of good
news, the available de-mimeing options within Mailman are
enabled.
More broadly, the issue of demimeing and de-htmlizing email
has been done by me locally for years as part of my inbound
filters.
That option exists for anyone willing to take control of their
email stream; I am reasonably indifferent to a preson's
complaint who says that they cannot -- for really, email
addresses and domains, and the necessary compute resources to
subscribe an alternative (filtered) email address are
essentially freely available these days -- as 'cannot' really
means they _will not_ take ownership of their own infosec.
- Russ Herrold