What's the difference?

[Marc Swanson]

> Two posts, as received.  One is three times the size of the other - if
> Dan is sending out 1,800 copies of each, he has to fund (out of his own
> pocket) 8MB more bandwidth for the second one over the first:
>
>    MAIL02A0.IN     C:\NETMAIL\BUFFER\   2,171   6/03/01  14:10
>    MAIL02A1.IN     C:\NETMAIL\BUFFER\   6,139   6/03/01  14:10
>


So really... how hard is it to parse mime and html mail before blowing it
out of the server?  Seems to me some quick perl code could be written to
intercept the mail before it goes out and bounce it if it is anything but
plain text..... In fact i can bet somebody has already done this for other
mailing lists....



-Marc-


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