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["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj@bellsouth.net>]

On 2/4/2011 8:54 PM, Ginda Fisher wrote:
> On Feb 4, 2011, at 8:41 PM, Lawrence F. London, Jr. wrote:
> > Is this part necessary - just adds to length of post. You _can't_ post to the 
> > list w/o being subscribed anyway.

> I don't feel strongly about this, but many similar mailing lists allowed 
> posts from unsubscribed posters to be reviewed by a moderator and released if 
> the moderator deems them appropriate.

I don't know of any lists that allow this. In this day and time we would 
be wide open to spammers and hackers if non members were allowed to post 
and if based on approval would be a huge can of worms and tireless job 
for the person who volunteered to review such posts before allowing them 
into the list. Also we might be open for viral file attachments.

> > > File attachments are NOT stripped by this list.
> > > TAKE STEPS TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM COMPUTER VIRUSES!
> > > Please do not send binary files.
> > > Use plain text ONLY in emails!
> >
> > All file attachments _are_ stripped automatically from each post therefore it 
> > is important to send your messages inline and not as attachments. If you send 
> > them composed in html such formatting will
> > be ignored and they will appear in plain text.
>
> I get lots of posts in HTML, and have received attached photos.  So what it 
> says is correct.
>
> But perhaps you are suggesting a change?  I confess, I like most of the 
> photos I get, but I have a fast internet connection.

I failed to notice that attachments are not scrubbed in the list config. 
 I have made the following changes:

These attachments are allowed:
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Remove message attachments that have a matching content type.
(Details for filter_mime_types)

image/gif
image/jpeg
image/jpg
image/jpef
image/bmp
image/png
image

Remove message attachments that don't have a matching content type. 
Leave this field blank to skip this filter test.
(Details for pass_mime_types

multipart/mixed
multipart/alternative
text/plain

The attachments will be removed automatically.
If anyone gets any files of this sort please let me know so I can fix 
the problem:
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Remove message attachments that have a matching filename extension.
(Edit filter_filename_extensions)

exe
bat
cmd
com
pif
scr
vbs
cpl
zip
rar