From: Brennan Leathers <digibren@...>
Date: 2003-01-07T19:14:11+09:00
Subject: Re: attachment:ot  -was RE: A very  humour game


On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 03:54  AM, Gavin Sinclair wrote:

> For some reason Mark's post (60668) included the message twice (once
> as an attachment), taking its size to around 17kb. Brennan's follow-up
> in the thread did the same for an even larger message. What do they
> have in common? Client: Apple Mail.

ok, the problem is not really Apple Mail in particular but any mailers 
that are set up to send both RTF or HTML and plain text copies of their 
messages. normally this seems fine to me but I appreciate your argument 
that it adds up quickly on a high-volume mailing list. I wish there 
were some way to make a client only send RTF/HTML with certain 
on-computer profiles or not send both to certain addresses, but there 
are none unless the client can be scripted with something like 
AppleScript (Mail can be, but I don't know applescript).

is it possible to block attachments based on type with the software 
this ML uses?
if so, why not block attachments of text/enriched or text/html?

in the meantime something to keep in mind is that several clients (Mail 
and Eudora and Outlook) can set messages to plain text only on a msg 
per msg basis. this could be done when one is about to send a large msg.

brennan