[Wolves] Fw: Nantwich Radio Rally 16th Feb in Nantwich Civic Hall ++Hack Green Nuke Bunker

[Adam Sweet]

On 06/02/2020 19:25, John Alexander via Wolves wrote:
> RE Linking .. As it eats the Links that couldn't happen
> No chance of filling the server at the moment though...more likely to  die of old age ;-)JA

I don't want to keep this rumbling on, but as I said, the stripping of
formatting, including links or images shouldn't happen again so linking
images rather than posting them to the list preferable.

Ad



>     On Thursday, 6 February 2020, 15:58:46 GMT, Adam Sweet via Wolves <wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:  
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>  Hi John
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> It looks like this and your Sun mail have fallen foul of the lug.org.uk
> mailman content filters. I don't know if these are mailman defaults, set
> as defaults by the lug.org.uk admins or by previous LUGmasters.
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> I see this mail made it through cleanly to Birmingham LUG, who also use
> the lug.org.uk mailman server and I think I've found the setting which
> broke the mail. Looking at the mail that made it through unbroken to
> Birmigham LUG, the content type is set as:
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> Content-Type: multipart/alternative
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> Which means the mail contains more than one content type and the client
> can choose which to display. Typically this is a plain text version
> (Content-Type: text/plain), followed by the original HTML version
> (Content-Type: text/html) or image/jpeg for the Sun mail.
> 
> Mailman has a setting which determines whether mail with the content
> type multipart/alternative should be passed through as is, or stripped
> down to just the first (text/plain). For us it was set to strip down to
> just text/plain. I've disabled that now so multipart/alternative mails
> should pass through as is.
> 
> I imagine this was set by a previous LUGmaster here, or is the default
> and was been changed by the Birmingham LUG people. As you can probably
> imagine, there have been numerous disputes over HTML content in the
> past. The main argument against it was that some people still used
> console based mail clients. I don't see that as relevant any more,
> though my personal preference (and I expect most people here) is for
> plain text mail on mailing lists, but I don't want to be puritanical to
> the point of forbidding HTML mail.
> 
> As far as your Sun mail goes, generally speaking, binary attachments
> shouldn't be included in mails to the list for numerous reasons, mainly
> to do with resource usage when processing and sending the mail to tens
> or hundreds of recipients on a busy list server where there may be mail
> queuing and retries involved, as well as storage usage on the lug.org.uk
> archive (it runs on contributed hardware). This is a common issue on
> most busy list servers. Best practice is to upload the image or document
> somewhere and post a link to it.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Adam Sweet
> 
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> On 06/02/2020 14:03, John Alexander via Wolves wrote:
>>   Gotta say that a mail system that filters out links and images pritty much removes all information in 2020 GRR!!
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>>     On Thursday, 6 February 2020, 13:48:56 GMT, John Alexander via Wolves <wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:  
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>>   Obviously more Radio orientated but full of Tools /Widgets/Computer stuff 
>> I'm going in a now full car but ask around and tag along with someone already going!Home
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