[Mailman-Developers] Boilerplate and content filtering [was: Introduction and Project Discussion]

[Patrick Ben Koetter]

* Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org>:
> Sreyanth writes:
> 
>  > Also, I would like to hear more about : Boilerplate stripper AND Better
>  > content-filtering / handling error messages.
>  > ​Boilerplate stripping is trivial to understand. But, can anyone elaborate
>  > on Better content-filtering / handling error messages?
> 
> But boilerplate stripping is not necessarily trivial to implement,
> because it's not always clear what boilerplate is.  I think it might
> be a good idea to save it off and provide a link rather than discard
> it, which leads to interesting questions of storage, shared links for
> true boilerplate (storage compression of repeatedly encountered text,
> yes, but more important the link will turn purple so you don't need to
> click on it in the next message from that user!), and user interface
> in general.
> 
> Content filtering is mostly going to be about MIME handling: choice of
> the appropriate text/* part and things like that, removing
> images/video/etc where the list prohibits them, converting HTML/
> wordprocessor attachments to plain text, removing MIME parts whose
> Content-Type doesn't match filename or perhaps file(1) magic in the
> content, etc.

Just to mention it:
IF we are going to add MILTER functionality, a MILTER would be perfect to
do MIME handling.

p at rick

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