Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su> writes:
David Abrahams wrote:
Unknown, since nobody spoke up since http://tinyurl.com/2mqkr. IMO we should just restore the status quo.
Problem is that it's unknown what the status quo was. The current status is that the following MIME types are let through:
multipart/mixed multipart/alternative text/plain text/x-cplusplus text/x-c++src text/x-c++hdr text/x-csrc text/x-chdr text/html
but HTML will be converted to plaintext.
My mailman installation says:
"Leave this field blank to skip this filter test."
so maybe it should be really left blank? The set of reasonable extension is hard to guess in advance (at least .diff, .patch, .log, .out are possible, but who knows...)
I think the goal is to prevent viral intrusion and unreasonably large downloads. That said, we probably have enough safeguards in place with the "first-post-moderated" policy and posting size limits that you're probably right. As long as HTML is still being converted to plaintext, I don't forsee any problems. Objections to clearing the MIME type filter field, anyone? -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com