From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Apr 01 2003 - 04:56:32 CST
In <m33cl3zjqd.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org> Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
>Part of this "best current practice" could be a clause that states to
>write "!binary" as last or next-to-last part of the Path (you'll usually
>find !not-for-mail there today) -- and then the path exclude would
>work. No "filters" needed, just a mail or call to the feeder (upstream)
>telling him "please add binfor to my path excludes".
Actually, that could be quite a good solution to the problem (but as the
next-to-last, not the last item in the Path). Certainly good for keeping
binaries out of a server. Maybe not so good for user agents (for sure it
won't be in the overview).
-- Charles H. Lindsey ---------At Home, doing my own thing------------------------ Tel: +44 161 436 6131 Fax: +44 161 436 6133 Web: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl Email: chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk Snail: 5 Clerewood Ave, CHEADLE, SK8 3JU, U.K. PGP: 2C15F1A9 Fingerprint: 73 6D C2 51 93 A0 01 E7 65 E8 64 7E 14 A4 AB A5