I am passing on a message sent to all listowners from Rootsweb regarding
the future blocking of Mime formatted text and any attachments except
forwarded messages. For any of you that might need help turning off
these features in your mailer, see the URL at the bottom of this
message. Thanks
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Hi, folks --
Well, it took almost two months longer than expected, but we're
right now installing a SmartList hack that blocks file attachments
(including VCARDS), HTML messages and enriched text postings.
Sorry about the delay: things have been crazy around here.
This note is to let you know how it works. When a poster sends
something to a mailing list written in HTML, or with a
non-plain-text attached file, the list server will send the
poster's message back to them, with a note at the bottom
explaining the plain-text requirement at RootsWeb. A COPY OF THIS
REJECTION MESSAGE WILL BE SENT TO YOU AS WELL! That's because the
poster may write back to you to complain or to ask for help, and
it can be pretty confusing if they write a reply to a message that
you never saw.
So when you suddenly start getting messages from
YOURLIST-L-REQUEST(a)rootsweb.com, quoting some ungodly HTML mess
that you never saw before, don't be alarmed. :-) It just means
the list server is rejecting a MIME message that was sent to your
list, and that you may get a response from the poster.
This change is not currently something the listowner can turn on
and off. Attachments will be blocked from every list alike. This
might not be to the taste of some listowners, so we'll consider
closely whether it would be safe to make it an optional setting.
Thanks to Marc Nozell for finding the SmartList patch that was
used as the basis for this fix!
Regards,
Tim Pierce
RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative
volunteer sysadmin and general hacker
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For those of you who have programs that support html or styled text
(Outlook Express, Netscape Communicator, Eudora.....and may be others)
here is the address of the website that will give simple, concise
instructions for how to turn it off.
http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/listowners/html-off.htm
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John E Cain; 4601 Concord Drive; Garland, TX 75042
http://www.rootsweb.com/~msamite/index.htm -----Amite County MS
http://www.rootsweb.com/~jecain/index.htm ----Cain/Ware list and My
Website.