Re: About those test messages

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

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