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Re: Manual intervention

To: Mark J Bradakis <mjb@cs.utah.edu>
Subject: Re: Manual intervention
From: Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 09:12:54 -0800
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 09:40:40PM -0700, Mark J Bradakis wrote:
> 
> If this were true, you wouldn't see these 'manual intervention' messages.  But
> on occasion I take pity on hapless subscribers who have no idea what they are
> doing.  Basically, now that the eighty or so autox.team.net lists are running
> through a DSL line to my house, the bandwidth used up by Clueless Mouse Pilots

[..]

Hi Mark.  I really appreciate the work that you're putting in to the list.  
I run a number of lists myself, on my own servers like you do, so I know
how much work it really is.  I'm very thankful for people like you
and me who run lists non-commercially-- I truly hate the commercial
list services that include advertising in list messages and spam the lists.

I recently added a program to my majordomo setup that looks for, and strips
out, MIME attachments.  It's configurable to do the same for other stuff.
I used to run Majordomo so that it would reject posts with MIME in
them, but my lists have a lot of people who are pretty new to computers
and don't really understand what all this stuff is.  So I got a lot of
"why did you reject my post?" emails.

The program is called demime. http://scifi.squawk.com/demime.html

Again, thanks for running the list.

-- 
  Eric Murray           Consulting Security Architect         SecureDesign LLC
  http://www.securedesignllc.com                            PGP keyid:E03F65E5

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