North American Fruit Explorers mailing list at ibiblio

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

On 2/4/2011 9:43 PM, Chris Garriss wrote:
> I agree that most closed lists do not allow non-members to post, and very
> much prefer it that way.

This is a good plan. I'll keep the config that way.

> I have to admit to being confused at this point as to which,  if any,
> attachments are allowed.

These are allowed:

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

multipart/mixed
multipart/alternative
text/plain

I need to know what message body size limit (this includes the size of 
any attachments) we need to have for the sake of those with a slow 
internet connection:
I have set it to two megabyte which is pretty big; maybe it should be 
one megabyte. Any suggestions? 2mb is a slow but manageable download for 
anyone with 3mb/s DSL and even 1.5 mb/s. Too slow for 56kb dialup if 
anyone still has this.
Ex. My attached pic of a Meyer Lemon is 225KB in size if that will give 
you any way to gauge download times.

And should I filter out .pdf (Adobe Acrobat) and .pps (PowerPoint) 
files? Yes? No?

  I strongly support blocking attachments where
> they are executable - such as ".exe " etc.  I think images as attachments
> (most common including jpg,  bmp,  gif,  tif,  as well as other common
> formats) enhance communication.   I would probably strip PDF attachments -
> they can be quite large and 99% of the time a URL can be provided.

The usual suspects are now filtered out, one that coud contain viruses 
or other malware:

exe
bat
cmd
com
pif
scr
vbs
cpl
zip
rar