On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 02:31:30PM -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > Latest Mailman 2.1.5 has the ability to strip the markup from HTML posts > and send them out as plain text. > > Lat time this suggestion was made, RH wasn't running the latest Mailman. > MM 2.0.x does not have this capability. It looks like they are running a > 2.1.x MM now, so they could do this. Matt - next time you may want to read the entire email, including the parenthetical comments: > > (We will ignore, for the moment, the huge cost to RedHat of the processing > > load to strip out HTML from all their mailing lists. Note, all RH's > > mailings lists are handled by the same software) Yes, mailman does have that capability. RH deliberately does not use it. #1 - large amount of additional processing, which is mostly wasted since very few HTML posts are made. #2 - Badly formed HTML. Some MUA's create HTML which does not parse cleanly and so cannot be reliable stripped out. #3 - Unneeded complexity. Current mailman system isn't broke. Why muck with it? (Looking at it from their perspective) -- Linux/Open Source: Your infrastructure belongs to you, free, forever. Idealism: "Realism applied over a longer time period" http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/ <a href=http://kinz.org>Kinz</a> http://www.fedoratracker.org http://www.fedorafaq.org http://www.fedoranews.org Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. ~ ~ ~ ~
