From fholson@cohousing.org Thu Dec 20 22:56:43 2001 From: fholson@cohousing.org (Fred H Olson) Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 16:56:43 -0600 (CST) Subject: [Listadmins] HTML on Mpls-issues list Message-ID: Hi David Mpls-issues , I just browsed the last month or so of messages of Mpls-issues and noticed your request to not post html - which does indeed not archive well much of the time. Just thought I'd apprise you of my experiment with this... In early October of 2001 I configured mailman to reject messages with html attachments. I get notified that there is a message with a "suspicious header" and have to "tend" it like postings from non-subscribed addresses. What I have been doing so far is discard the message AND send a copy to myself (owner - just a mouse click). Then I add the canned preamble and edit the preamble a bit to include the orig poster's name and address: (I'm thinking of starting to add the posters last name to the subject line when I forward a message to the list. This would allow our subject line serach engine to find messages they wrote...) Joe Blow is the author of the message below. It was posted by Fred the Cohousing-L list manager because the message included HTML ; PLEASE do not post HTML, see http://csf.colorado.edu/cohousing/2001/msg01672.html -------------------- FORWARDED MESSAGE FOLLOWS -------------------- and post it. Results so far: HTML TTL Oct: 10 235 Nov: 4 187 Dec: 6 142 It has not been too bad, certainly some / most people have learned and reconfigured their mailers. I think a few people have posted HTL repeatedly tho I have not bothered to check systematically yet. I think a perso or two have lapsed (somehow gotten THML posted after having "fixed" the problem. I have one poster who has "vcard" attachements that are getting rejected along with the HTML. This is yet to dealt with other than posting with a modified / apologetic preamble. There is software to strip html - I have not pursued it. Please email me if you want details. The new Nbhd-tc (Nbhd-L) running on listserv at tc.umn.edu looks like it might handle attachments well enough that I may allow them. I dont have enough experience there yet. Fred Cohousing-L Info Page : http://www.communityforum.net/mailman/listinfo/cohousing-L -- Fred H. Olson Minneapolis,MN 55411 (near north Mpls) fholson@cohousing.org 612-588-9532 (7am-10pm Cent time) List manager of Cohousing-L & Nbhd-tc Ham radio:WB0YQM More info: http://www.mtn.org/~fholson/sig-detail.htm