Smitty wrote:
>On Monday 26 April 2004 20:02, Steve Steiner wrote:
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>>Can you explain the reasoning behind this policy?
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>Sure. NKS has set up the mail server to bounce any email with html tags. This
>is an anti-spam measure that, unfortunately, encompasses our list. To keep
>postings from bouncing, we need to keep html tags out of the messages. If
>you include html tags in your messages, they will bounce. Nobody will
>penalize you for doing that. Your message simply will not be posted.
> NKS sponsors our list as a charitable means to assist the open source/free
>software community. I do not think we are in a position to insist they make
>some special arrangement for the very rare instance, and this has been only
>once in over a year this list has been operational, someone uses html tags in
>a message. Bear in mind that this list has very liberal posting policies:
>No spam, no libel and any hostile disputes shall be taken off the list. The
>html tag policy is a technical one, not one dealing with ethics.
>Regards,
>Smitty
>
>
>
I don't believe I've ever been on a list that actually bounced all
instances of HTML tags, though I've been on a great many that are
plain-text-only for purposes of keeping bandwidth down. I figured if
this was such a case that any HTML would simply be passed through
unmolested. In any case, now that it has been explained, the
HTML-bounce policy makes a certain amount of sense.
Is this policy referred to anywhere for this list? If so, I'm afraid I
overlooked it.
-- Chad Perrin
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