At 9:26 AM -0400 10/9/00, Mitchell Darer is rumored to have typed:
Should I ban attachments from being submitted to my list? Or does Smartlist handle them in a reasonable fashion?
Depends on what you mean by "reasonable." For a standard interactive list, SmartList passes the mail through handily, whether there's an attachment or not.
Of course, if you have a digested list connected to that interactive list, the digest list will go to the devil pretty quickly with all that encoded garbage in it (not a SmartList issue directly, but a general digest issue). And one must ask oneself if the list really _needs_ attachments; is it a programming list where people will be sharing code and binaries? Is it a graphics list where people will be collaborating on learning Photoshop techniques? Or is it a standard discussion list where those annoying .vcf files some people insist on attaching to their email are just going to tick people off?
The most important question to ask yourself is, does your list _require_ attachments for its operation? If not, consider banning them on general principal. (And if you decide you _do_ need attachments, make sure you set a sane size_limit, unless you really like sending 3M attachments to hundreds of recipients...)
Charlie