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Re: Administrivia (was Re: äöòä äòöä)
Quoth Evgeny Stambulchik on Tue, Mar 30, 1999:
> Vadim Vygonets <vadik@cs.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> > 64KB seems to be one day (or less) on this list.
>
> You're right, it's about 100K a day during the last couple of months.
So? Should I setup digests to be sent nightly?
> > I can also set the option to "humanize MIME", which means
> > un-MIMEing the text attachments (appending them to the end of the
> > message as plain text), and stripping the binary ones.
>
> I think if you enforce the message size limit, no reason to worry about
> binary attachments.
It depends.
> As to HTML, many messages (from those who use netscape
> to send emails) actually contain both plain text and HTML variants, and the
> latter can safely be removed so not to double the bandwidth; and "pure" HTML
> ones can filtered through lynx -dump. If course, if it's difficult to set
> up, forget about it.
It's not too difficult to set up, but do HTML messages actually
arrive to this list? We should set up the Marc Volovic filter
adain, it seems.
Vadik.
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