[Mailman-Developers] Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself...

[Nick Simicich]

At 12:25 AM 2002-03-09 -0500, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>If everyone seems to want to filter them out of mailing lists, perhaps
>there's some moral in that.

I wrote a program called "demime" that lives in a pipe ahead of all my 
lists.  It strips out mime, leaving plain text, removing attachments, 
alternate sections and the like.  It also will remove advertising footers 
that people like yahoo and Juno don't pay me to redistribute or to store in 
my archives (and my own footers that people can't be persuaded to snip). :-)

There are a number of people running it - if you are interested, I suggest 
you check http://scifi.squawk.com/demime.html, and join the mailing list.

>I don't think, no, that HTML email is at all good.  MIME, yeah, no
>problem; there are *standards* there.  There is *no* standardized way
>to wrap an HTML email so that you can do anything intelligent with it,
>which is inherent, I think, in the (lack of) design thereof.

I agree.  Now add that to my urge not to allow people to distribute viruses 
and worms via my lists and many people's inability to do anything but 
sending plain text (what do you mean I didn't send plain text?  This is 
plain text, it just has some different colors and fonts and stuff.  Don't 
be silly.) or to tell plain text from mime, and it is essential, in my 
opinion, to have some tool that can convert the user's text back to plain text.

It is written in Perl, by the way, sorry about that.  I know Perl better 
than I know Python.  There are people who have been using demime for 
years.  I have been using it for years.  It should *not* be used on the 
address that catches bounces, but it can be used in front of your command 
alias and your mailing list submission alias.

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degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is 
worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to 
fight, nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety, is a 
miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made so by the 
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Nick Simicich - njs@scifi.squawk.com