From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 3 4:43:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from bbnrel4.net.external.hp.com (bbnrel4.net.external.hp.com [155.208.254.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 986CE37B4C5 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 04:43:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from hpcpbla.bri.hp.com (hpcpbla.bri.hp.com [15.144.112.65]) by bbnrel4.net.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFF451E370; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 13:43:20 +0100 (MET) Received: from sse0691.bri.hp.com (sse0691.bri.hp.com [15.144.0.53]) by hpcpbla.bri.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 SMKit7.0) with ESMTP id MAA27363; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 12:43:13 GMT Received: (from keithj@localhost) by sse0691.bri.hp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA80359; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 12:47:20 GMT (envelope-from keithj) Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 12:47:20 +0000 From: Keith Jones To: Garance A Drosihn , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time to close the list? Message-ID: <20001103124720.A80316@moose.bri.hp.com> References: <200011021508.IAA07466@usr09.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from drosih@rpi.edu on Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 01:46:14PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 01:46:14PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 3:08 PM +0000 11/2/00, Terry Lambert wrote: > >3. Automatically delete all MIME parts with: > > > > Content-Type: application/* > > > > Which are ever sent via the list software. > > This seems like a mighty good idea to me... Is there any > reason we would ever expect an application sent in these > mailing lists? How easy would this be to implement? It's possible (if unlikely) that someone could have zipped up kernel config and dmesg output and attached them to an email in a request for assistance. The MIME type could be one of application/x-tar application/zip (etc.) and it might be undesirable to eat them. Keith -- Keith Jones E-Business Service Introduction, GBIT-E (Bristol) E: keith_jones@non.hp.com T: [+44 117] 312-7602 I don't speak for Hewlett-Packard. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message