[dev] QuickStart Document

[Jon Parise]

On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 04:20:50PM -0400, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:

> > Could've sworn I attached the document to the original message. Let's try
> > again:
> 
> The lists must be stripping attachments (at least of some types) - I had a
> problem with this earlier but thought I was screwing up somewhere. Jon?

Yes, the lists do filter most MIME attachments.  Here's the list of
excluded MIME types:

application/excel
application/rtf
application/msword
application/ms-tnef
text/html
text/rtf
text/enriched
text/x-vcard
application/activemessage
application/andrew-inset
application/applefile
application/atomicmail
application/dca-rft
application/dec-dx
application/mac-binhex40
application/mac-compactpro
application/macwriteii
application/news-message-id
application/news-transmission
application/octet-stream
application/oda
application/pdf
application/postscript
application/powerpoint
application/remote-printing
application/slate
application/wita
application/wordperfect5.1
application/x-bcpio
application/x-cdlink
application/x-compress
application/x-cpio
application/x-csh  
application/x-director
application/x-dvi
application/x-hdf
application/x-httpd-cgi
application/x-koan       
application/x-latex     
application/x-mif    
application/x-netcdf  
application/x-stuffit
application/x-sv4cpio
application/x-sv4crc    
application/x-tar         
application/x-tcl     
application/x-tex          
application/x-texinfo        
application/x-troff     
application/x-troff-man
application/x-troff-me
application/x-troff-ms
application/x-ustar   
application/x-wais-source
audio/basic      
audio/mpeg      
audio/x-aiff              
audio/x-pn-realaudio
audio/x-pn-realaudio
audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin
audio/x-realaudio 
audio/x-wav        
image/gif             
image/ief        
image/jpeg       
image/png              
image/tiff               
image/x-cmu-raster      
image/x-portable-anymap
image/x-portable-bitmap
image/x-portable-graymap
image/x-portable-pixmap
image/x-rgb             
image/x-xbitmap           
image/x-xpixmap       
image/x-xwindowdump        
text/x-sgml                  
video/mpeg              
video/quicktime        
video/x-msvideo       
video/x-sgi-movie     
x-conference/x-cooltalk
x-world/x-vrml

The prefered way to attach a source file is by setting its MIME type
to 'text/plain'.

-- 
Jon Parise (jon@csh.rit.edu)  .  Rochester Inst. of Technology
http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/  :  Computer Science House Member