Dear LIS-Forum Member: I would like to bring the following few points to your kind attention and solicit your cooperation in the smooth running of LIS-Forum discussion list. 1. Posting messages to LIS-Forum list: -------------------------------------- On a rough average, 4-5 postings are received by LIS-Forum list everyday. The Content-type of most of these messages is "multipart/alternative". When the content-type of the mail you are sending happens to be multipart/alternative, it will be sent as an attachment as well. This will unnecessarily duplicate the message and in the process increase the size of the mail you are sending. Please *ensure* that while posting messages to lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, the Content-type of the mail you are sending is set to "text/plain" as indicated below. Content-Type: text/plain You may be aware that as a matter of LIS-Forum policy, no mails to lis-forum with attachments will be broadcasted. But, most of the lis-forum mails are being received with content-type being multipart/alternative, which means all such mails are being received with attachments. Although, you may not have explicitly attached a file to your message, because of the content-type being set to "multipart/alternative" you message is being received with attachments as well. I request you to check the content type of your mail, especially when it is being sent to lis-forum and ensure that it is set to text/plain. All along the way I have been treating such multipart mails is as follows: If I am too busy, I return such mails with a request that it should be re-sent without attachments. Many a times what I have been doing is that forward such messages to the owner of the list, do the required editing, re-post the messages to lis-forum@ncsi, and then broadcast such edited messages. That's the reason why many a times you would have noticed that postings seem to originate from mail@ncsi but not from the actual originator. As you can infer, all this editing process takes quite a bit of time and effort, which can be avoided, if you can ensure that mails meant for lis-forum@ncsi have their content-type set to text/plain. If you are not sure of how to verify and/or change the content type of your mail pl. get it clarified from your system administrator. 2. Junk mails: -------------- As you may be aware, LIS-Forum discussion list is a closed list meaning only subscribed members can post messages to this list. This feature works quite well in the latest version of the Mailman discussion list software that we use. Also, LIS-Forum is a moderated list meaning the messages posted to this list doesn't get broadcasted automatically. Only such of those messages approved by the moderator gets broadcasted. In spite of LIS-Forum being a closed and moderated list, occasionally a few "junk mails" (spams) do manage to sneak into LIS-Forum. Such junk mails are discarded outright by the LIS-Forum moderator. To the best of my knowledge such messages have never been broadcasted on LIS-Forum. One peculiar thing that I am unable to understand is that the messages from *lisnet@yahoogroups.com* are being received by LIS-Forum list for distribution. Such messages will have its subject as: Subject: [lisnet] ...... I'm discarding such messages outright. People who have subscribed to both LIS-Forum and LISNET lists, tend to think that such junk mails are coming from LIS-Forum. I have received a couple of complaints from some of our members that membership of people originating such junk messages be removed from LIS-Forum list. I would like to clarify that such messages are not being originated by any of LIS-Forum members. Such junk messages are being sent fictitiously and the email addresses of originators such messages are not to be found in the LIS-Forum membership list. We are trying to set right a few minor problems that we are facing with the latest version of mailing list management software. Please do bear with us. Sorry for the long mail and thanks for your cooperation moderator