Joe Geiser appropriately sent out notice to subscribers to please
insure that they do not request acknowledgements in list messages.
I would like to amplify this just a bit and pose a question to the
readership.

The new Listserv on raven automatically strips Exchange formatted
attachments (with MIME type "application/ms-tnef") but does not
unfortunately strip the WINMAIL.DAT ones.

There is a new option that you may be interested in -- for those
messages that get sent as "multipart/mixed" and have both a text
version and an HTML version of a message, Listserv *can* remove the
HTML attachment from the message.  I would like to enable this
feature unless there is some strong opposition from the list (no
need to reply if you think this is a good idea, but feel free to let
me know if you think it's a bad idea).  To let you know exactly what
this option implies, let me quote the owner's manual:

> Language= NOHTML: This setting allows you to specify that LISTSERV
> strip any HTML attachments from postings (while retaining HTML tags
> sent in the body of plain text messages).  The actual function of
> this setting is to remove the attachment that contains the HTML mail
> from the message. It does not remove HTML tags from plain text
> messages. This means that setting this option will not suppress HTML
> in messages sent from Eudora Pro 3.x (since Eudora Pro 3.x does not
> send the HTML message as a MIME attachment with a plain text
> alternative). The setting also does not suppress HTML in messages
> sent from current versions of Netscape Messenger if the sender
> chooses the "Send in HTML mail only" option when sending the message
> (because there is no alternate plain text attachment for LISTSERV to
> use in that case).

Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>