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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/23/2012 08:45 AM, Rossen
Apostolov wrote:<br>
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On 2012-08-21 22.08, Szilárd Páll wrote:<br>
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type="cite"> I'm quite puzzled why is the gmx-users still
rejecting non-plain text messages. There has not been a single
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Erik wrote already in this thread why he changed the setting.<br>
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I think most of us agree on not allowing attachments.<br>
But not allowing html makes quickly replying to the mailing list
cumbersome,<br>
which makes the mailing list less useful, as less people will reply.<br>
All developers, except for Erik who didn't veto it either, are in
favor of allowing<br>
html content. So I would ask to allow html content again.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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Berk<br>
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<div>So once again, Rossen (or someone else with the
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Check with him on that.<br>
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Rossen<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 3:19 PM,
Berk Hess <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<div class="h5">On 07/20/2012 01:55 PM, Justin
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On 7/19/12 6:56 PM, Mark Abraham wrote:<br>
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solid;padding-left:1ex"> On 5/07/2012 11:24
PM, Rossen Apostolov wrote:<br>
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style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px
#ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Dear all,<br>
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Recently the Gromacs mailing lists have been
used for sending spam and<br>
viruses, and thus now only plain text
messages are accepted.<br>
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If you have received rejected mails saying
"The message's content type was not<br>
explicitly allowed" it means that you have
used in your mail special styles or<br>
formatting (e.g. bold typeface, colors
etc.).<br>
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Check your email client settings about how
to send messages as plain text,<br>
e.g. in GMail make sure to click on "Compose
-> Plain Text". Check also<br>
whether a formatted signature is added.<br>
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Attachments are also not allowed but you
could include links for downloads.<br>
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Rossen<br>
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Bump.<br>
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I'm happy banning attachments (there's lots of
free upload space out there), but<br>
think that explicitly requiring plain text
email is a significant barrier to<br>
participation. Some web mail clients don't
permit a non-HTML mime type - that's<br>
not our fault but we have to live in that
jungle. Some people will walk away<br>
without bothering to find out if they can
configure plain text email. Others<br>
will judge the technical competence of the
team on their ability to run the<br>
mailing list. If we need to outsource it
somewhere, we should do that.<br>
<br>
Mark<br>
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I agree with Mark here. It seems to me that
traffic to the list has been down for a couple
of weeks relative to normal, but there may be
other factors for that. What I do know is that
I'm getting increasing amounts of emails to my
personal inbox starting with "I can't post to
the Gromacs list, so I'm sending this to you..."
That's an increased burden I'm not willing to
bear. I'm all for community contributions (you
all know that ;) but as soon as it becomes my
responsibility to handle Gromacs issues, I'm
less inclined.<br>
<br>
-Justin<br>
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I think everyone agrees that we need to accept html
mails.<br>
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The question is if we need some filter and when
Rossen, or someone else, has time to fix this.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
<br>
Berk
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