From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17621 invoked from network); 1 Jul 2002 05:16:50 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 1 Jul 2002 05:16:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 14435 invoked by alias); 1 Jul 2002 05:16:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 5138 Received: (qmail 14423 invoked from network); 1 Jul 2002 05:16:39 -0000 From: Borsenkow Andrej To: "'Cameron McBride'" , zsh-users@sunsite.dk Subject: RE: Closed list? (was Re: A new game) Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 09:16:25 +0400 Message-ID: <6134254DE87BD411908B00A0C99B044F03A0B2FE@mowd019a.mow.siemens.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 In-Reply-To: <20020630153658.GA13720@localhost> x-mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal > > that supports IMAP and kill these messages without even downloading > > them. If you get reasonable mail client you can read test without > > downloading the whole attachments. > > Heh. OK, so the argument here is to better enjoy the list, I change my > provider and get a decent mail client. Nice response... At least it > is a reasonable suggestion of things to try if I hadn't thought of them > and had it available. > I did not intend to offend anybody just pointed out that blocking mail just because it is in MIME makes little sense. I do not like spam here as well but the problem with any mail blocking is you end up blocking legitimate mail. More than once my posts to other lists were rejected because mail software found them offending for whatever reason. Besides this mail list is run by external authority and in the past we had problems contacting maintainers. -andrej