From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Faylor To: GDB Mailing List Subject: Re: About those test messages Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 10:26:00 -0000 Message-id: <20010705131604.B24400@redhat.com> References: <20010705170545.473D246894@lenard.microcelli5.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-07/msg00047.html On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 01:05:17PM -0400, Laurent Duperval wrote: >I'm not a prude or anything but... There was a few messages sent to the list >these past few days which almost got me in hot water. As I was joyfully >hitting the Delete keey on messages I didn't want, I eventually hit a bunch >of messages with the subsject "test". Well, evidently, they should have been >sent to alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.whatever. The most embarrassing part >of this is that at the same time, my boss was walking behind me and he said >"Laurent, I saw you!". He laughed along with me but had it been anybody who >gets easily offended, my butt would have been at stake. > >I don't think we can destroy the nntp <-> smtp gateway but can some type of >filtering be installed to at least keep out the images? It's not like >there's a big need to post binary images to this list/group. I considered blocking image attachments after that idiocy but it occurred to me that people occasionally post screen shots of problems so I couldn't make a unilateral decision to block images. If the consensus is that no one wants to ever see any kind of images, though, I can either bounce or strip them. Should we vote? cgf