RE: Albrecht Dreß e-mails get filtered on the YDL list (was RE: [IMPORTANT] SOUND!!!!)

[Longman, Bill]

> I say the above because you said the messages "are" 
> attachments. It occurs
> to me that it is possible you meant to say they "have" 
> attachments, which
> is a completely different situation, in which case the 
> solution is to stop
> deleting messages with attachments because it is unforgivably rude to
> do so at a time when they are the wave of the future in 
> e-mail programs.
> In fact just as soon as I upgrade to Panther, all of my e-mails will
> contain attachments (note that Panther does not require 
> this). This list
> will be unaffected as I only post to it via news.gmane.org, 
> not e-mail.

Hmm....I hope not to be on that wave, then. The only thing I see from his
messages are the TSS mailman trailers. Obviously that is working correctly.
What I don't understand are the assertions that my mailer is broken, all
mailers of the future will contain attachments and that deleting attachment
messages is rude.

Albrecht, under the moderately-acceptable assumption that you are using a
mailer to post your messages to the list, isn't there some way for you to
configure it as text without attaching the message?

> I realize that I have not addressed the question of "Why?" 
> but the answer
> to that is a subject I feel is too technical and political 
> for this list.

A valid political question for the list is how to handle attachments sent to
the list. I don't like them because I don't need or want them. If I did, I'd
go find them. And I'm not about to start opening any unsolicited
attachments.