NP List functionality suggestion

[Leigh]

<<  by asking Murthy to place a block on all MIME-format, html and rft
posts.  >>

concur with this notion.

leigh

On 6/7/05, jbor at bigpond.com <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> > And please please don't do it in MIME format, which the W.A.S.T.E.
> > system re-transmits as yards and yards and yards of irritating
> > gibberish.
> 
> Seriously, though, it might be worth trying to improve the
> functionality of the list-digest and list-archives by asking Murthy to
> place a block on all MIME-format, html and rft posts. It might be a
> simple thing to do, and they must already have a spam-filter in place.
> They have certainly blocked posts in the past.
> 
> A note could be placed on the list home page. By blocking html and MIME
> posts no real content would be lost, and legitimate new subscribers
> would soon learn how to send plain text emails if they wanted to
> participate, as would those who deliberately choose to use html, MIME
> and rich text (knowing that it does come up as gibberish). Html links
> can still be embedded in plain text posts.
> 
> I think the list has lost a lot of worthwhile contributors over the
> years because the signal to noise ratio is so low. Improving the
> functionality of the list, and blocking one way in which the
> incorrigibles disrupt the discourse, might encourage some of them to
> return.
> 
> I'll cc'ed Murthy to see what he says.
> 
> best
> 
>