At 08:06 PM 3/9/01, Nick Simicich wrote:
>The majordomo 2 people say that it sould be part of the receiver's configuration.
Really? So it's better to distribute virus attachments and bet that
all your subscribers are sophisticated enough to catch them? That's
a bandwidth issue IN ADDITION TO a security issue.
I once lobbied Jason to put 'hooks' in Mj2, so people could add local
modules that fit into the flow instead of altering messages with a
piped tool. The idea was soundly rejected. The tools is highly
configurable, but only for the things that Jason and Michael have
decided should be done. It would be fairly simple, since both Mj2
and demime are written in Perl, to modify a copy of Mj2 to incorporate
perl scripts as modules instead of pipes... but I haven't done it.
I'm using Mj2, with demime in the alias pipe BEFORE Mj2 sees either
commands or posts. Without demime, all the LookOut users send styled
text that poofs the Mj2 command parser (e.g. they can never subscribe
or unsubscribe without figuring out how to reconfigure LookOut, which
many of them are either unwilling unable to do).
Anyway, thanks for making demime available. You can lead a horse to water...
SRE
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