On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 08:52:02PM -0700, ben wrote: > On Wednesday 10 April 2002 08:39 pm, Gary Turner wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 22:17:21 -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote: > > >begin ben quotation: > > >> reiterate them. as for the modification, i have no idea what ms-tnef is, > > >> much less why it should or shouldn't be permitted. since you apparently > > >> do, what should its status be relative to desired propriety on the list? > > > > > >It's a Microsoft proprietary standard for encapsulation of MAPI > > >messages. It's been discussed in this list as recently as yesterday and > > >today. > > > > It has been referenced, but neither discussed nor described. This is > > the first definition of what it is that I've seen. All I've known is > > that looking at it raw, it is not text that I can read, so out it goes. > > > 1. no spam > > 2. no html, ms-tnef (?) > > 3. wrap text > > with reference to ms-tnef, is this a reasonable and workable prohibition? > personally, i 've never been offended by it. is it actually an impediment on > the list?
Instead of getting into prohibitions of data formats, which will soon grow into a very long list, just say plain text only. Regards to ms-tnef, I certainly can't do anything with them, goes to /dev/null immediately (same with html and most mails with attachments). Mailing lists should be treated like usenet, only better ;-) -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
