List Attachments?

[David Sowder]

On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Pickering, John (NORBORD) wrote:
>My first choice would be to strip all attachments and pass what's left to
>the list. That would be better than bouncing the entire message -- then
>anyone who is interested in what was supposedly in the message can harass
>the original sender. This would get rid of the html copies and those dumb
>vcf thingies.

That idea, while interesting in some ways, would unfortunately be much
more software hacking than the hack to allow only attachments from Cognos.

>If Bob Deskin or some other Cognos notable wants to send us all an .xls file
>(even if it's just about Compaq stuff) then perhaps he can work with you to
>temporarily enable attachments. Bob's answers (except when he ducks sales
>questions :-) are straight from the lab and I wouldn't want to make it
>difficult for him to post. I suspect it won't be often that he'll want to
>send other than ascii text.

An alternative would be this:  Since attachments would most likely bounce
to me, I could still approve appropriate attachments.

>Now if there was just some way to get rid of those out of office messages
>:-)

Encourage those who send them to modify their auto-responder to recognize
and ignore messages from lists.

--
David R. Sowder
Network Manager/Lead Software Technician
Southwestern Adventist University
http://www2.swau.edu/~davids/         Primary Email Address:   davids@swau.edu

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