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Subject: [RHEA-L] List news from Listowner
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 22:49:42 EDT

Hello Cousins:
I am pasting a message from rootsweb below for your information. They are
working to make the list messages easier to read for everyone. I hope you
will all understand. If you need help, as always, let me know.
On another matter, the anti spam filter they developed seems to be
working. I get an average of one a week to each list that they stop. If you
get spam as a member of the list, forward to me. ***note*** only the spam
through the list <G> I get my share too :-)
Message follows:
Hi, folks --

Well, it took almost two months longer than expected, but we're
right now installing a SmartList hack that blocks file attachments
(including VCARDS), HTML messages and enriched text postings.
Sorry about the delay: things have been crazy around here.

This note is to let you know how it works. When a poster sends
something to a mailing list written in HTML, or with a
non-plain-text attached file, the list server will send the
poster's message back to them, with a note at the bottom
explaining the plain-text requirement at RootsWeb. A COPY OF THIS
REJECTION MESSAGE WILL BE SENT TO YOU AS WELL! That's because the
poster may write back to you to complain or to ask for help, and
it can be pretty confusing if they write a reply to a message that
you never saw.

This change is not currently something the listowner can turn on
and off. Attachments will be blocked from every list alike. This
might not be to the taste of some listowners, so we'll consider
closely whether it would be safe to make it an optional setting.

Thanks to Marc Nozell for finding the SmartList patch that was
used as the basis for this fix!

Regards,
Tim Pierce
RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative
volunteer sysadmin and general hacker

End of message

Pat Hall- Listowner and Administrator of Craig-L
President/Editor of Craig Society for Genealogical Research

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