Image attachments and dialup

[Alan McKinnon]

On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 15:16 +0200, Ouattara Aziz wrote:
> >> As it happens, I now have a decent connection, but when I was on dialup
> >> this kind of thing drove me crazy!
> > 
> > Wouldn't it be great, if ALL attachments were filtered automatically?
> > This way, we also wouldn't have to suffer from the HTML junk people,
> > especially from googlemail, send out :|
> > 
> 
> To filter anything like that could cause problems. Imagine a simple guy 
> looking for help, and the mail doesn't reach cause he is using HTML 
> mails. Won't he be frustrated ? If we could automatically send back a 
> warning mail telling him not to do so, and explaining how to do it right 
> , it would be nice. Their emails can even be rejected BUT the system 
> shouldn't forget to send them the reason AND the way to fix it.

HTML mail isn't much of a problem, on most messages it's another 2-3k or
so, about the same size as digital signatures, and not many people will
dare complain about *those*. Best overall solution is to leave html mail
alone for the reason above.

BUT, random arb attachments (other than html, sigs, vcards, et al)
should be bounced - like the 192k brute that set this thread off.

And when we've got that implemented nicely, can we please get back on
track inventing the TopPostOblitoRay? The one that hunts down and
brutally massacres anyone who dares top-post? 

alan