alex wetmore wrote: > On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: >> On 7/16/02 10:47 PM, "JC Dill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> I'd be more surprised if your ISP would refuse to do it. Stripping MIME >>> off mailing list destined posts makes everyone's life easier. >> Except that's not where things are headed. Especially when you start >> dealing with non-english language stuff. Instead, we need to >> selectively strip UNSAFE content and stop going to LCD situations. A message with a content-type of text/plain can still contain non-english characters, no? >> But I know from previous discussions you won't agree with me on >> this, and I won't push the agenda right now... > Mailman needs to have better support for MIME in digests and archives > before not stripping all MIME makes sense. My users who were happiest > when I started stripping all MIME were the digest recipients who > previously had to wade through raw MIME. You can tell Mailman to send > digests with each message as a MIME attachment, but that is harder for > most people to browse using common MUAs. > > Two of the four stripping tools mentioned in the FAQ allow for > selective stripping of content. I'll agree that my tool (stripmime) > takes the most drastic approach of stripping everything. FWIW, SYMPA is supposedly MIME aware (I haven't played with it at all). It also has some encryption features that sound cool. I agree that stripping MIME to lists is generally a good idea, especially where the archives are concerned. Personally, I rarely / never send attachments to mailing lists, since it's usually easier to put the file up and let people retrieve it via http or FTP... and I try to avoid sending PGP/MIME messages on the rare occasions i sign messages to a list. I'm almost invariably happy when lists I'm on have demime (or stripmime or whatever) installed, as it gets rid of all matter of annoyances. -- Will Yardley input: william < @ hq . newdream . net . > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py