On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
I don't think that's a good idea. I think "looks like text" is difficult. I don't know how Japanese resources look like, nor how Keyboard layouts in Spanish. I'd rather go with the file extension.
file(1) is your friend. Mime types are completely unreliable, and I see no point into forcing people use specific extensions.
How about this - I'll keep them as attachments. If we find out people can't reply to them, we'll change it? I'll also make sure that messages that have inline patches are passed as is, so that your favourite method will still be supported. Sounds good?
No, it doesn't. I can't easily reply to a message with an attachemnt, in that the attachemtn is not being quoated in the reply. Not Good (TM). I see no point in having such a filter if we don't do inlining, really.
I think they way people learn what to do is by receiving feedback. This is a chance to automate the feedback mechanism.
I wouldn't worry about it for now. Let's see what we get out of the filter first, I have a strong suspicion there will be _very_ few emails that would need 'bouncing'. At which point an email from a real person is more polite and a better feedback. If we keep having a problem, we can think of automating it, but until then it's a solution looking for a problem.