What's the difference?

[Orin Eman]

> 
> > 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....

Indeed, it's called stripmime and is in use on the bikelist.org lists.

Orin.