<div dir="ltr"><div><div>+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.<br>
<br></div>I think the connectivity in Africa is improving and i think we should just be fine with those extras kb. <br><br>Nevertheless as Alan and Owen has mentioned, it will be helpful if list members endeavour to avoid those large size signatures :)<br>
<br></div>Cheers!<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Owen DeLong <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:owen@delong.com" target="_blank">owen@delong.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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.<br>
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An occasional polite request to try and keep messages to plain text as much as possible should be all that is required here.<br>
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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.<br>
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Just my $0.02.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Owen<br>
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On Jun 10, 2014, at 23:56 , Alan Barrett <<a href="mailto:apb@cequrux.com">apb@cequrux.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Ignoring the merits of Badru's message itself, I'd like to focus on the<br>
> structure:<br>
><br>
> 1 multipart/related [94K, 7bit]<br>
> 2 |->multipart/alternative [7.5K, 7bit]<br>
> 3 | |->text/plain [2.7K, quoted-printable, us-ascii]<br>
> 4 | `->text/html [4.5K, quoted-printable, us-ascii]<br>
> 5 `->image/png [86K, base64] A6B4555D-F867-4A2F-A9F9-BAF29039D12B[1].pn<br>
> 6 text/plain [0.1K, 7bit, us-ascii]<br>
><br>
> 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.)<br>
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> 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.<br>
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> 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.<br>
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> --apb (Alan Barrett)<br>
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