just say no to HTML and MIME

[Brett Dikeman]

Please search through the manual for your email client(heaven forbid) 
and make sure you're not sending emails to the list with MIME and 
HTML in them.

I'm investigating a program which will pre-process email sent to the 
list, and convert MIME(or just throw it away if it's identical to the 
plaintext component, it's pretty smart), strip HTML, and even zap 
those annoying "get yer free internet access here!" ads from the 
bottom of people's messages.  It will be a bit before it is ready.

I'm also looking into how to strip the footer text from each message 
in the digest, this adds about 60-100 lines of extra text that never 
needs to be sent.  I'm also thinking about how to zap headers that 
aren't necessary and shorten the length of the footer at the bottom 
of messages.

Hopefully this will save our UK listers a few $(well, not quite $, 
but you know what I mean) and ease up the load on the poor ISDN line 
the list is running off of...

Brett
PS:got your browser's homepage set to the Audifans website?  Please, 
please, please unset that ASAP!  Bandwidth is at a premium, and 
repeatedly loading the Audifans logo and the HTML does tend to add up 
if even a small percentage of the 1,500 people on the list are doing 
it throughout the day.  Go set it to something like www.suck.com, 
www.slashdot.org, www.globe.com/globe/ or 
www.dancinghampster.com(only if you are clinically insane)...whatever 
floats yer boat.
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