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Re: Rob: Mail Manipulation?

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Nov 01, 2003
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Rolf Schr=F6der wrote:
> as far as I understand, your program ListFilter checks each e-mail
> sent to the EUforum for several purposes: spam, offending speech, to
> large, to avoid advertisements, ..., and so on. This is ok for me and
> probably necessary.

As I explained privately, ListFilter attempts to snip out
Yahoo, Hotmail and other ads from messages. You recently
started using a signature that is introduced by a long
line of dashes, just like a Yahoo or Hotmail ad.
After several messages with that signature,
ListFilter marked your address as one that
sends ads. ListFilter was then sensitive to any long
lines of dashes or underscores anywhere in your message,
and recently it snipped some of them, including the line
following. The algorithm is not perfect. 85% of people
do not send ads with their messages, so they are marked
as having "no ads" and ListFilter will normally leave their
messages alone.

>    But I'm not happy with your 'policy' handling mails sorted out by
> ListFilter: NO e-mail should be published on EUforum manipulated by
> ListFilter without clear notice that it has been manipulated.
>    Moreover, instead of distributing a manipulated email on EUforum, I
> would prefer that ListFilter returns the objected e-mail to the sender
> with some information about the objection, to give him the opportunity
> to send an enhanced, acceptable version for distribution.

In the case of Yahoo, Hotmail and other free services,
the sender does not have the ability to remove the ad.

>    And: could ListFilter leave characters > 126 unchanged, or, in case
> Topica is unable to handle 8 bit characters, replace them by i.e. the
> '$' sign, so that everyone knows that characters > 126 were replaced?

ListFilter makes no changes to individual character encoding.

>    What is your and the other list members' opinion about this?

I've added a quick kludge so long lines of dashes will no longer
be snipped from your e-mails.

Regards,
    Rob Craig
    Rapid Deployment Software
    http://www.RapidEuphoria.com