[rpd] Unnecessary attachments

[Seun Ojedeji]

Hello Ademola

On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Ademola Osindero <ademola at ng.lopworks.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Seriously, are you marshalling email format?
>

More like the opposite. A proposal to moderate was made and i suggested its
not worth the effort.

Cheers!

>
> Regards,
> Ademola Osindero
>
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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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