About those test messages

About those test messages

[Laurent Duperval]

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Hi,

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.

L

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Re: About those test messages

[Christopher Faylor]

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

Re: About those test messages

[Keith Warno]

> 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

I'd say bouncing messages with images is the better way to go so that
the sender clearly knows images aren't allowed in posts.  As for those
who post screen shots of problems, it may be a little more work for them
but I'm sure they could figure out how to send it off to a website and
post a URL to such an image rather than the image itself.  This is
better than getting one's butt flamed by a conservative superior at the
workplace.  :/

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