Re: [boost] Re: attn Moderators

From: Chris Little (cslittle_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-09-12 18:31:31

on 9/12/02 6:54 PM, David Abrahams at dave_at_[hidden] wrote:

> From: "Iain K.Hanson" <iain.hanson_at_[hidden]>
> 
> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden]
> [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]]On
>> Behalf Of Matt Verona
>> Sent: 12 September 2002 15:17
>> 
>> 
>> [snip]
>> 
>> Is there anyway we can filter out html messages from the list please.
> This
>> one contained
>> javascript that attempts to write to your address book in MS outlook!
> 
> I don't see one. I'm asking the Mailman maintainer.
> 
> -Dave

Dave,

Apple uses mailman for their mailing lists and they say:

> Because of virus problems, we limit postings to text-only. The tool we use to
> strip MIME parts from a message is demime
> (http://scifi.squawk.com/demime.html), which also strips some of the
> adver-footers off of sites like yahoo mail or hotmail for us.

I'm not knowledgeable about mailman but maybe this could work for us too.

Chris