On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Ian Manners wrote:
> Hi Winsor
>
> >I agree with the people who complain about HTML on the list. It does
> >occur to me that it has been a problem and a source of a long litany
> >of complaints with every list I have been on. What is hard for me
> >absorb is that there is not list server software out there that will
> >automatically strip out the HTML and make the problem go away. Is
> >that so? If not why isn't it used?
>
> Depends on the server I guess, the 3 lists that I host all have HTML
> and attachment strippers. OS/2 Software developers are very
> responsive to there clients needs :-)
>
Well, it's an Unix box running majordomo. Software exists, but with an
userbase with mail clients as heterogenous as on this list, there are
always "false positives" one way or the other.
However being (at least to some extend) an unix software developer, I am
trying to be very responsive to the lists needs and trying to hack
something up - as far as time permits.
Patience, everyone.
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Thomas Heide Clausen
Civilingeniør i Datateknik (cand.polyt)
M.Sc in Computer Engineering
E-Mail: T.Clausen@xxxxxxxxxxxx
WWW: http://www.cs.auc.dk/~voop
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