[IxDA Discuss] Silent failures with IxDA list -

[Josh Seiden]

Which brings to mind a key point:

IxDA is currently working to improve our members'
experience with the list. We use mailman to run the
list--and for various reasons are likely to do so for
some time.

If you have some special expertise in mailman and
would like to volunteer to help connect our
email-based list with our forthcoming web-based
platform, we would love to hear from you.

Write to me if you're interested in helping out.

Thanks,
JS 

--- Paul Schreiber <shrub at mac.com> wrote:

> [Please voluntarily trim replies to include only
> relevant quoted material.]
> 
> Prior to yesterday, I had attempted to post to the
> IxDA list three  
> times, without success. I tried both the email
> address in the footer:
> 
> > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association
> (IxDA)!
> > To post to this list ....... discuss at ixda.org
> 
> And the one at the top of the digest:
> 
> > Send discuss mailing list submissions to
> > 	discuss at lists.interactiondesigners.com
> 
> In all cases, my messages failed to appear on the
> list. Yet I  
> received no bounce or other error message.
> 
> The problem turned out to be:
> (a) my messages are sent with an S/MIME signature,
> and,
> (b) the list software rejects all messages with
> attachments
> 
> Now, rejecting messages with attachments is good
> behaviour for a  
> mailing list. However, doing so silently is bad.
> Further, for the  
> special case of S/MIME signatures, they should be
> passed along or  
> stripped (and stripped for the digest), and not
> cause the entire  
> message to be rejected.
> 
> 
> Paul
>