is it naive of me to think that it might be possible to train users of this list not to send HTML-formatted mails to the list?
that perhaps with constant reminders and pointers to the appropriate documentation on netiquette things might improve? any chance of configuring the list server to reject mails containing HTML? Rob Urban http://www.tfl.net/maillistfaq.html http://www.imperialclub.com/GettingStarted/MailingLists/Etiquette.html http://www.openz.org/list_etiquette.php http://www.efn.no/html-bad.html http://www.writerswrite.com/journal/dec99/pirillo1.htm http://www-zeuthen.desy.de/~friebel/mail/mail02/text10.html In PDF, but very nicely done: http://eesc.orst.edu/agcomwebfile/staff/Cate/Back0999.pdf other lists' policies: http://www.histology.to/listservers.html http://www.rockandwater.net/list-policies.html http://legalminds.lp.findlaw.com/list/food-law/msg02330.html http://lyrictracker.com/main.php?action=nug-rules tips for turning off HTML in various clients: http://email.about.com/cs/netiquettetips/a/et070103.htm Drew Weaver wrote: > Howdy, I got the autocreate patch working and its very nice, the only = > thing im trying to figure out is this. If I userdel a user, why does = > sendmail still deliver mail as if the user still exists? Shouldnt = > sendmail say, hey uh this user doesnt exist, and return the message? > > -Drew > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> > <HTML><HEAD> > <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> > <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1170" name=GENERATOR> > <STYLE></STYLE> > </HEAD> > <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> > <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Howdy, I got the autocreate patch working and its > very nice, the only thing im trying to figure out is this. If I userdel a user, > why does sendmail still deliver mail as if the user still exists? Shouldnt > sendmail say, hey uh this user doesnt exist, and return the > message?</FONT></DIV> > <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> > <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-Drew</FONT></DIV> > <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML> >
