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	On Thursday, 2001-11-11T23:27:29, <omniweb at lkmc.ch> "(Lucas K. 
Mathis)" wrote:

>> 	FFS, can the list admin please set the list to reject rich text 
>> emails and strip attachments?

> 	yes, *please*!

> 	This has got *nothing* to do with being uptight, and nobody wants 
> anyone to send "single line cryptic messages". It would just be nice 
> if you
> respected people who

> 	-	have to pay for their internet connection
> 	-	don't have html mail clients
> 	-	have slow internet connections
> 	-	aren't interested in the images you force on them
> 	-	are subscribed to the digest and get garbage instead of html/rtf

> 	Just throw the images on your iTools-homepage and send the link. 
> And turn html off. It's not asking much!

	I agree! I have sat quietly while people:

	Quote whole digests
	Post in RTF, HTML, et cetera
	Use bazaar text-encoding schemes:
		Only use _"*ONE*"_ of these per message and _"*NEVER*"_ any 
other kind of text-encoding:
			"us-ascii"
			"iso-8859-1"
			"utf-8"
			"utf-16"
			"utf-32"
			"unicode"
	Attache attachments

	Here are a few suggests:

	Require all messages to have more lines of original text than 
quoted text and *.sig combined with the quoted text on top, the 
original text in the middle, and the *.sig at the bottom.
	Forbid markup.
	Forbid attachments.
	Make the largest allowed post <16mb
	Make the largest digest <32mb
	Require standard text-encoding  --  no more "EBCDIC" (Extended 
Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code), "Windows-1252", et cetera.

	Feedback welcomed.

	Regards,
	Ŭalabio.

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