List Filtering (was Re: [Xapian-discuss] how to display the results in html which we r showing on konsole)

[James Aylett]

On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 05:13:05PM +0100, Olly Betts wrote:

> The explanations on mailman's "Content filtering" page are sadly rather
> unclear about details, and about how the options interact.
> 
> I've used it in the past, and just assumed it did something sensible.
> A bit of googling suggests that it just takes the first part (which
> is usually text/plain but doesn't have to be).
> 
> But since multipart/alternative with HTML and text versions in reality
> always has one auto-generated from the other, it doesn't really seem
> too important which happens.

Well, I've enabled something. Let's see what happens :-)

> > (Also means that attachments will be junked. Hooray. What's the MIME
> > type for patches again?)
> 
> I don't think there's an official type, but text/x-patch is common.
> Attachments of text/x-c, text/x-perl, and several other text/x-* types
> should probably not get stripped.  If you go that route, I'd probably
> suggest allowing text/* with a few exceptions, and stripping anything
> else.  

Okay, we now allow text/* but disallow text/html.

> Incidentally, I don't think the recent rash of messages is an
> attempt to spam.

No, I think it's people trying to use Xapian very rapidly and not
having a chance to read all the documentation before diving in :)

> Several of the posters seem to be trying to write a GIS system which
> uses Xapian:
> 
> http://groups.google.com/group/pp_gis/

Cool :)

J

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