Re: [dev] Filtering HTML attachments

From: Stephen Whitmore <stephen.whitmore_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2015 15:19:19 -0700

On 08/09 23:57, Teodoro Santoni wrote:
> Good evening,
>
> On Sun, Aug 09, 2015 at 09:41:45PM +0200, Christoph Lohmann wrote:
> > Greetings.
> >
> > In our mission towards a more suckless world a small step to discuss is
> > to filter HTML attachments to our mailinglists.
> >
> > Should attachments be stripped or offenders be blocked and warned?
>
> I'd go for stripping attachments, drop HTML-only
> emails and sell HTML email users' addresses.

I wonder if an educational approach might be more effective than an
aggressive one: linking the "offending" user to relevant documentation
on how to configure various MUAs for text-only and/or informative
articles on why HTML email is considered bad practice. Bonus: you
potentially get a new educated contributor rather than having turned one
away.

>
> > Are there still people that are not able to remove HTML from their MUA?
>
> Is that even possible in, e.g., the gmail web interface?
>
> --
> Teodoro Santoni
>
> Something is wrong. I don't wanna compile 20 KB of Go code to list files.
>
Received on Mon Aug 10 2015 - 00:19:19 CEST