Content filtering on XEmacs Beta and XEmacs Patches [was: python compound statement skeletons]

[Andreas Roehler]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Andreas Roehler writes:
> 
>  > Attached a patch.
> 
> The patch was filtered by Mailman, you have my apologies.  Please
> resend.
> 
> I have changed the content filtering on XEmacs Beta and XEmacs Patches
> to allow the following MIME types:
> 
> text/x-patch
> application/x-patch
> text/emacs-lisp
> 
> Note that for review purposes, text/x-patch and text/emacs-lisp are
> *strongly* preferred because they will be automatically displayed in
> *any* properly configured MIME-capable MUA, while allowing MUAs like
> Gnus to be configured to fontlock them.  application/emacs-lisp is
> disallowed because the obvious interpretation is "execute me", which
> is hardly a good idea.  I'm not sure about application/x-patch, but it
> seems fairly harmless.
> 
> My thanks to Didier and David for forcing me to think this through,
> and my apologies to them, Andreas,

No, no. Thanks, Stephen, for all your care and assistance.
Just stay patient towards errors out of mine.

Andreas



 and anybody else who's lost a patch
> for forgetting to fix up the list config.
> 
> The complete list of allowed types is now:
> 
> multipart/mixed
> multipart/alternative
> multipart/signed
> text/plain
> text/html
> application/octet-stream
> image
> message/rfc822
> text/x-patch
> application/x-patch
> text/emacs-lisp 
> 
>