Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 10:44:04 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> Cc: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org>, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Todd.Miller@courtesan.com: MIME is now being removed from the mailing lists] Message-ID: <20010426104404.B52781@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <20010426004807.B2DD13E2A@bazooka.unixfreak.org>; from dima@unixfreak.org on Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 05:48:07PM -0700 References: <20010425235927.A2523@paula.panke.de.freebsd.org> <20010426004807.B2DD13E2A@bazooka.unixfreak.org>
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On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 05:48:07PM -0700, Dima Dorfman wrote:
> Wolfram Schneider <wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org> writes:
> > FYI - OpenBSD.org filtering now MIME mails.
> >=20
> > The FreeBSD mail archive has the same problems with MIME mails.
> > If you want that all people can read and find your mails,=20
> > don't use MIME (and PGP signed MIME mails).
> > =20
> > Plain text rules,
>=20
> I concur. I'm pretty sure that some people will scream if we try to
> do this, however. =20
I'd probably be one of them.
Specifically,
1. PGP. Not a huge deal, but anything that makes it easy to publicise
your PGP key is, IMHO, a good thing.
2. People submitting patches as attachments. It's much easier to
pull out 3 different attachments from a message if they're
separate attachments than it is to have to cut-n-paste out of the
message body.
There might be an argument for filtering out .exe files, and similar.
Of course, these are the same mailing lists that *don't* filter out
"subscribe" requests, and we get far more of those than we do problem
attachments. So I think it's really a non-problem at the moment.
N
--=20
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