>For a more in depth reply stop using quoted printable encoding.

I understand the advantage to plain text encoding, but there are
a number of PICListers that cannot control the encoding scheme.

I wonder if one of the network wizards could implement some sort
of mail forwarding bot that could accept incoming mail, convert
it to plain text ISO-8859-1 7 bit format, then forward it on to
the piclist mailserver.

If this were done on the senders side, the bandwidth should be
reasonable. It might create additional steps for the admins=20
though, if they were trying to backtrack through the headers to
find the original source of bad messages or mail bounces.

My field of knowledge is not networks, this may not be a feasible
solution. This kind of "front door" may also lend itself to
filtering based on size, attachments, virii, whatever the admins
deem suitable for the "greater good of the group".(scary words!)

Just the Monday morning ramblings of a madman,
Lyle Hazelwood

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