Re: [at-l] Not to be Sorry---

["Ryan K. Brooks" <ryan@inc.net>]

Definitely something to consider... I'll watch a day's worth of messages and see
how this might impact everyone.

R

ben wrote:

> is there any reason *not* to disable attachments?  people don't sent files
> to this list, do they?
> HTML browsers can still read text...
>
> -BEN
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pat Villeneuve <patv@falcon.cc.ukans.edu>
> To: Ryan K. Brooks <ryan@inc.net>
> Cc: The Wizard <tschamp@tiac.net>; at-l@backcountry.net
> <at-l@backcountry.net>
> Date: Friday, April 07, 2000 12:51 AM
> Subject: Re: [at-l] Not to be Sorry---
>
> >So how come Ryan is so nice?
> >Has anyone here actually met him? Is he for real? (And could he give
> >lessons to other trail list administrators?... ;->)
> >Should the riotous HBs try to form an orderly line? <ha>
> >
> >Testing, testing-
> >Give Me Chocolate
> >
> >Ryan K. Brooks wrote:
> >
> >> None taken.. and I agree with your points.   I am running the latest
> Majordomo
> >> software, and I haven't seen a fix for the digest software to deal with
> this
> >> (beyond the option of rejecting mail like this).   For what it's worth I
> also
> >> deal with a number of commercial list-serve packages, and I don't know of
> one of
> >> them that do this correctly.
> >>
> >> It isn't trival, since you can imagine that the software would have to
> >> reconstruct attachments server side and reassemble the digest, deal with
> >> intermessage dependencies from incorrectly formatted HTML, etc. -but
> someone
> >> will/has figured it out and eventually it will trickle down to us.    So
> with
> >> that in mind, please don't send HTML, MIME, winmail.dats, vCards, etc. to
> the
> >> list until you hear different.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> --
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> >> Ryan K. Brooks                          V: 414-908-9000
> >> ryan@inc.net                            F: 707-885-4944
> >>    Time Warner Telecom / Internet and Data Division
> >>
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Ryan K. Brooks                          V: 414-908-9000
ryan@inc.net                            F: 707-885-4944
   Time Warner Telecom / Internet and Data Division


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