I agree! (was Ban Microsoft Outlook Express MUA from this list?)
Stephen L Arnold
arnold.steve at ensco.com
Tue Mar 9 21:54:55 GMT 1999
When the world was young, "Alain FAUCONNET" <af at biomath.jussieu.fr>
carved some runes like this:
[snip]
> So what ? unless the nice people who manage those lists can find the
> time to switch to a better list processor like Majordomo, all we can do
> is asking people :
>
> - not to send any multipart mails :
> * do copy/paste logs or config files inline, not as attachements
> * disable any HTML evil (I hope Outlook can do that, I don't
> use it)
> * avoid non-ASCII characters (many MUA would convert them to
> quoted-printable or even worse base64 -- the HP CDE mailer does)
> - disable vcards an all that nonsense - disable auto attachement of PGP
> signatures too, this really confuses
> things in digests for people reading them with elm
I have few more suggestions:-)
* No binary attachments (period)
* When you reply to a question in the digest, please delete
the extraneous portion (ie, all but the part you're replying to) of
the reply. You could even have a smallish .sig just for mailing
lists!
* Set your mailer (especially M$ products) for plain text
only for all mailing list entries in your address book (ie, turn
off that rich-text crap!).
* If you include all or part of your smb.conf, delete the
comments.
* When replying, please use a meaningful subject (Re: Samba
Digest 2000 doesn't tell me very much).
* Please give relevant information about your problem (OS,
samba version, auth type, client info, etc) and do your homework
first (I know that last part is a stretch, but at least try and
read some docs ;-).
Just my $0.05 worth. We now return you to your regularly scheduled
Samba programming.
Steve
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