list changes & RFC on archives & rack chassis - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

20 Mar 2002

On Mar 20, 10:53, Jay West wrote:

...
  A) Reject posts to the list which contain any kind of
HTML content. I think
...
  this would be fairly unobtrusive - most people
don't want HTML posts here
 anyways. 
This would reject a lot of spam, I think, but would reject some "real"
posts as well.  Personally, I find the multipart/alternative posts aren't
too hard to deal with, it's the ones that use odd MIME settings (like
multipart/signed and various other unnecessary stuff) that irritate me
most.

...
  B) I also like the 'self-policing' idea of
making posts to the list from
 non-subscribers get a subject tag of [OL] or something like that. This one I
...
  am not sure how to do off the top of my head, but
would think it pretty
 straightforward. Comments? 
I think that's a good idea.  Then people can do their own filtering if they
want -- by eye if not by procmail or similar.  I'd be very happy with that.

...
  2) WRT the archives at www.classiccmp.org THAT is a
project I have fallen
 far behind in. When I moved the list from the old ISP to the new ISP (me in
...
  both cases, long story)... something broke in getting
emails from the list
...
  to the archive mechanism. I noticed this maybe a month
ago, and when I
 started digging into it I realized it was time for a change - the archives
...
  there are not searchable and that just isn't
acceptable. 
I really miss the archive.  I find the threading very useful, and I'd
certainly regard that as an important factor, more so than searching (I can
use Google for that).

However, I have some idea of the resources that go into maintaining lists
and archives, and I'm grateful for what I've got :-)   Thank you for
providing it.

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York