From: Bill Davidsen (davidsen@prodigy.com)
Date: Mon Aug 05 2002 - 13:18:40 CDT
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Bernie Cosell wrote:
> I use Agent to moderate and in the wake of this discussion I did some
> hacking around, and Agent's machinery for handling text/RFC822 MIME
> sections [it seemed like the most sensible thing to test with! :o)] is
> truly pitiful. It displays the message in-line, with NO facilities that
> I could find to deal with the encapsulated message separately at all
> This in contrast to its handling of some other types of MIME sections
> which at least give you the option of storing the section to a file. Of
> course, I suspect that if the type were 'text/news-submission', Agent
> wouldn't know what to do with it,and so for *THAT* I _would_ be able to
> save it. but that doesn't help much --- so now I have the un-
> encapsulated message on my HD [and I"ve already expended a fair number of
> 'clicks' on handling this one submission]....
Maybe this is overly simple, but I would think that moving the messages
to a folder if you want to post, and then running a simple tool to grab
/news-submission bits and open a news posting socket... Clearly the tools
are not all in place, but if you do moderation manually it could be as
simple as adding a single executable you could run.
If you don't use all sorts of automated filtering it starts to look like
putting posts where the tool could find them would be something most mail
tools could do, and not overly a problem.
We have already discussed having the messages pulled out for you if your
content and mailer allow it, that's the "I won't even notice" case. I
suspect it's also the most common, except in the minds of those who see
no need for anything to change ever.
-- -bill davidsen (davidsen@darkstar.prodigy.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me