[rpd] Unnecessary attachments

[Ademola Osindero]

Hi,

Seriously, are you marshalling email format?

Regards,
Ademola Osindero

CEO/Consulting Director
Lopworks Limited
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Okota, Isolo,
Lagos, Nigeria

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On 11 Jun 2014, at 09:13, Seun Ojedeji <seun.ojedeji at gmail.com> wrote:

> +1 to Owen's comment. I agree that at times, sender's html signatures could be larger than the actual message body itself. ;) However i think setting the moderation bit on that basis alone would just create an un-necessary overhead of moderation.
> 
> I think the connectivity in Africa is improving and i think we should just be fine with those extras kb. 
> 
> Nevertheless as Alan and Owen has mentioned, it will be helpful if list members endeavour to avoid those large size signatures :)
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:
> While I agree with Alan on the pointless and gratuitous waste of bandwidth devoted to this type of message format, I do have to point out that in this day and age, even in Africa, a message that remains less than 100Kbytes is unlikely to represent a significant issue, even at the scale of the rpd traffic on it's busiest days.
> 
> An occasional polite request to try and keep messages to plain text as much as possible should be all that is required here.
> 
> I think moderation and/or message stripping is excessive and unnecessary. It also carries the further disadvantage of preventing a network diagram or other such small infographic from being used when it would add clarification and perhaps avoid 100s of Kbytes of discussion and misunderstanding.
> 
> Just my $0.02.
> 
> Owen
> 
> On Jun 10, 2014, at 23:56 , Alan Barrett <apb at cequrux.com> wrote:
> 
> > Ignoring the merits of Badru's message itself, I'd like to focus on the
> > structure:
> >
> > 1 multipart/related [94K, 7bit]
> > 2 |->multipart/alternative [7.5K, 7bit]
> > 3 | |->text/plain [2.7K, quoted-printable, us-ascii]
> > 4 | `->text/html [4.5K, quoted-printable, us-ascii]
> > 5 `->image/png [86K, base64] A6B4555D-F867-4A2F-A9F9-BAF29039D12B[1].pn
> > 6 text/plain [0.1K, 7bit, us-ascii]
> >
> > The useful part of the message (the text/plain part number 3) is less than 3K.  The entire message is bloated to 94K by the inclusion of an unnecessary HTML part, and an unnecessary image. (The text/plain part number 6 is the footer automatically added by the mailing list software.)
> >
> > I'd like it if the mailing list software automatically blocked all messages with attachments, pending approval by a moderator.  The moderator could delete unnecessary attachments, or simply ask the sender to try again without the attachment.  The moderator could approve messages with useful attachments.
> >
> > So many people send unnecessary HTML messages that it's pointless to hold them for moderation.  I'd prefer to delete the HTML part and keep the plain text, but I won't object if the community prefers to keep both text and HTML.
> >
> > --apb (Alan Barrett)
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