ATTN: Bill Campbell - Attachment Stripping? (was: Re: OT: Employment opportunity)

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Mar 30, 2006, Fairlight wrote:
>Confusious (George Simon) say:
>
>FAR TOO LITTLE for a 488 line post!
>
>Bill, I seem to remember (correct me if I'm wrong) you stating at some
>point that you had a piece of software written that strips MIME attachments
>from mail.  If so, I don't suppose you'd consider implementing it as a
>filter to this list?

Mailman provides for content filtering, which is disabled for the Filepro
mailing list.

The Mailman content filtering has two main sections, filter mime types and
pass mime types.

If anything is in the filter mime types, empty by default, the message is
discarded.

If messages are in pass mime types, multipart/mixed, multipart/alternative,
and text/plain by default, the message is passed.

There's another option, convert html to plaintext, which is on by default
if the content filtering is enabled.

That said, I would prefer to assume that the folks on this list are adults,
and observe list etiquette.  There may be occassions where it's reasonable
to post non-text attachments to the list.

On the other hand, posting messages which quote 400+ lines of the original
message with one line that says ``I agree'' doesn't say much for the
intelligence or manners of the person replying (do a Google search on
``Johari Window'').

Bill
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