Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 10:43:39 -0400
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> To DJ Delorie:
> Could you make your mailing list software reject posings containing
> JavaScript or VBScript (these substrings may indicate this:

I've added some things to try to cut down on virus email, but DO NOT
RELY ON ME to protect your systems.  I refuse to guarantee that my
filters catch everything (as demonstrated yesterday).

> or could you make the software automatically remove all HTML
> (interpret using Lynx or some other HTML renderer) and only post
> plaintext?

I've thought of doing something similar to this before, but this is a
much harder problem than just stopping a message from being sent.