samba - Mar 1999 - I agree! (was Ban Microsoft Outlook Express MUA from this list?)

When the world was young, "Alain FAUCONNET"
<af@biomath.jussieu.fr>
carved some runes like this:  

[snip]
> So  what  ? unless the nice people who manage those lists can find the
> time  to  switch to a better list processor like Majordomo, all we can do
> is asking people :
> 
> - not to send any multipart mails :
>  * do copy/paste logs or config files inline, not as attachements
>  * disable any HTML evil (I hope Outlook can do that, I don't
>           use it)
>  * avoid  non-ASCII  characters  (many  MUA  would  convert  them  to
>           quoted-printable or even worse base64 -- the HP CDE mailer does)
> - disable vcards an all that nonsense - disable auto attachement of PGP
> signatures too, this really confuses
>   things in digests for people reading them with elm
I have few more suggestions:-)

	* No binary attachments (period)

	* When you reply to a question in the digest, please delete 
the extraneous portion (ie, all but the part you're replying to) of 
the reply.  You could even have a smallish .sig just for mailing 
lists!

	* Set your mailer (especially M$ products) for plain text 
only for all mailing list entries in your address book (ie, turn 
off that rich-text crap!).

	* If you include all or part of your smb.conf, delete the 
comments.

	* When replying, please use a meaningful subject (Re: Samba 
Digest 2000 doesn't tell me very much).

	* Please give relevant information about your problem (OS, 
samba version, auth type, client info, etc) and do your homework 
first (I know that last part is a stretch, but at least try and 
read some docs ;-).

Just my $0.05 worth.  We now return you to your regularly scheduled 
Samba programming.

Steve


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Stephen L Arnold                      http://www.rain.org/~sarnold
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On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Stephen L Arnold offered:

+>When the world was young, "Alain FAUCONNET"
<af@biomath.jussieu.fr>
+>carved some runes like this:  
+>
+>[snip]
+>> 
+>> - not to send any multipart mails :
+>>  * do copy/paste logs or config files inline, not as attachements
+>>  * disable any HTML evil (I hope Outlook can do that, I don't
+>
+>	* Set your mailer (especially M$ products) for plain text 
+>only for all mailing list entries in your address book (ie, turn 
+>off that rich-text crap!).

+>#include <std_disclaimer.h>
+>******************************************************************
 Gregory Lee Jones                         skripto@io.com 
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