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<p class="MsoPlainText">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: rpd-bounces@afrinic.net [mailto:rpd-bounces@afrinic.net] On Behalf Of Alan Barrett<br>
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2014 9:56 AM<br>
To: rpd<br>
Subject: [rpd] Unnecessary attachments</p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Ignoring the merits of Badru's message itself, I'd like to focus on the<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">structure:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> 1 multipart/related [94K, 7bit]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> 2 |->multipart/alternative [7.5K, 7bit]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> 3 | |->text/plain [2.7K, quoted-printable, us-ascii]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> 4 | `->text/html [4.5K, quoted-printable, us-ascii]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> 5 `->image/png [86K, base64] A6B4555D-F867-4A2F-A9F9-BAF29039D12B[1].pn<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> 6 text/plain [0.1K, 7bit, us-ascii]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The useful part of the message (the text/plain part number 3)
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<p class="MsoPlainText">is less than 3K. The entire message is bloated to 94K by the
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<p class="MsoPlainText">inclusion of an unnecessary HTML part, and an unnecessary image.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">(The text/plain part number 6 is the footer automatically added by
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<p class="MsoPlainText">the mailing list software.)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">I'd like it if the mailing list software automatically blocked all
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<p class="MsoPlainText">messages with attachments, pending approval by a moderator. The
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">moderator could delete unnecessary attachments, or simply ask the
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<p class="MsoPlainText">sender to try again without the attachment. The moderator could
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">approve messages with useful attachments.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">So many people send unnecessary HTML messages that it's pointless
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<p class="MsoPlainText">to hold them for moderation. I'd prefer to delete the HTML part
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<p class="MsoPlainText">and keep the plain text, but I won't object if the community
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">prefers to keep both text and HTML.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">--apb (Alan Barrett)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">rpd mailing list<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">rpd@afrinic.net<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/rpd<o:p></o:p></p>
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