Re: MODERATOR: .html posts : Part II

[Lance Spitzner <lance () honeynet org>]

Okay folks, this is the point in time where your moderator sticks his 
foot in his mouth.  I have traditionally held a preference for text 
only maillists, but was wondering why our list seemed unique in getting 
large numbers submissions in .html formats.  When our maillist was 
first setup, it was configured to allow .html posts, which I was 
manually blocking. Its standard now for most/all securityfocus.com 
maillists to automatically filter out .html, allowing only .txt.

As such, and after receiving numerous emails from people concerned 
about the change, I'll be moving the maillist back to our original 
standard of text only posts.  The maillist filter has been updated to 
allow text only postings. Once again, please send all flames, issues, 
concerns to me directly.

Thanks!

lance


On Nov 27, 2005, at 13:58, Lance Spitzner wrote:

> Folks,
>
> In the past we had a policy of posts in text format only.  Unless 
> there is a major issue, I'm going to change that to allow posts in 
> .html also.  For whatever reason, I'm seeing more and more posts using 
> .html and finding myself rejecting more and more emails, asking people 
> to repost in text format.  While I feel that posts only in text has 
> its advantages, its becoming a major obstacle to communication.
>
> If you have any issues or concerns, please email me directly.  
> Otherwise, assume that from this point on, I'll be accepting emails in 
> both text and .html format.
>
> Thanks!
>
> lance