[Zope] zope list posting restrictions

Bill Anderson bill@libc.org
01 Mar 2001 12:36:19 -0700


On 28 Feb 2001 09:50:24 +1100, Curtis Maloney wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 20:23, you wrote:
> > After a discussion on irc the idea of a 15K limit and no html email was
> > arrived it. This would block almost all spam that comes to this list and
> > would not interfere with its normal functioning since the 15K cap is about
> > 5K over most of the largest pure text messages which seem be hit a cap
> > of about 10K without having html in them.
> >
> 
> Awww!  But then I don't get to use SpamCop every second day! (o8
> 
> 
> Seriously, I'm all in favour of doing anything to stop SPAM in this list... 
> however, be aware that we FREQUENTLY get newbies posting HTML encoded mail.  
> The most irritating part about that, imho, is that they normally DON'T KNOW 
> they're doing it.  Oh, all the wasted bandwidth! (o8
>


So an autoreply indicating:
1: they sent html
2: html is not allowed
3: instructions for the common miscreant mailreaders on how to turn OFF
html

Done. That should solve that issue. :)

Bill Anderson