displaying function name

[Joor Loohuis]

On ma, 2004-08-30 at 09:42, Nathaniel Gray wrote:
> On Aug 30, 2004, at 12:02 AM, Joerg Fischer wrote:
> 
> >> Have a look
> >> at the attached nedit macro file:
> >
> > There is nothing attached. Please notice that you
> > must explicitly denote any attachement as plain text
> > file, otherwise the list software won't let it through.
> 
> Can we reconsider this policy?  It's kind of important to be able to 
> send patches and macros around on this list and the list software seems 
> to be a little overzealous in rejecting these things IMHO.  If it's an 
> important part of stopping spam I'll stop complaining, but otherwise it 
> seems to be fairly annoying.

The problem is that a macro file is often attached as some MIME type
like application/octet-stream because the mail client can't decide that
a file with a .nm is text/plain. The list allows text attachments, so if
an attachment is renamed from mymacros.nm to mymacros.nm.txt, it should
get through without any problems. The same goes for patches.

I configured the mailing lists to be this defensive because one time a
zip attachment with dubious content slipped through. While it might be
inconvenient, IMHO the alternative of potentially spreading a virus to
hundreds of people is unacceptable.

As I have stated before, I am open to discussion on the matter. If I
should add more allowed MIME types we can be sure of that are safe, the
lists might be easier to use. Of course this depends on the MIME type
your mailer assigns to certain attachments. I'd say, try and find out
what attachments you want to see added so that macros and patches get
through. Please notice that there also is a limit on the maximum size of
the message body of 40K.

Currently the allowed MIME types are:
multipart/mixed
multipart/alternative
multipart/signed
text/plain
text/html
application/pgp-signature
where text/html is converted to text/plain by the list software.

-- 
Joor Loohuis

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