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In <20020405101556339.AAA391@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com>, Philip J. Koenig <pjklist@ekahuna.com> typed:
> On 5 Apr 2002, at 11:06, Ceri boldly uttered: 
> > On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 12:47:35AM -0800, Philip J. Koenig wrote:
> > > - if they really are answering the same questions over-and-over, the
> > >   obvious solution would be a boilerplate document or a webpage to 
> > >   point people to answer their "FAQs".
> > 
> > This is in the FAQ.
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#FREEBSD-MAIL-BOUNCES
> Interesting on the HTML blocking.  While I'd love to run a list that 
> way, many of the ones I've been on would be filled with angry people 
> if all HTML messages were blocked.  Tons of people sending that junk 
> nowadays. (much to my chagrin)

I think you misread the filter description. It doesn't bounce messages
that are HTML and plaintext, which is very common. it bounces messages
that are HTML only. I've only seen one place generate such messages
that aren't spam.

	<mike
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