Mention has been made on this list about LISTSERV 1.8e.  I don't recall a
comprehensive item about all of the new features/changes, but I do recall
that rejection of HTML, whether attachment or not (thank you), and internal
LISTSERV scanning for virsues were to be included.  What about other
features, from the listowners' viewpoint?  Could we have a memo on that?

As to the virus stuff, the admin at my host site tells me that the
internal, LISTSERV, antivirus stuff will work only for Linux and a Windows
platform (NT?) so that my site, being Unix, will not have it.

If that is correct, why is it correct?  Improvements are only for the
currently most popular platforms and everyone else can go hang (AFD
anyone?)?

While I'm at it, I will repeat my request that LISTSERV strip the
      Resent-Subject: field from items which are approved via
resend/bounce.  I realise that not everyone will use the "resent" feature
when editing/approving items for the list (I don't say "can't" as they
"can" if they will bother to use a system which allows them to do it, but
often they won't, considering said system too "clunky" (if it works, while
the latest "gee whiz" doesn't, it ain't "clunky", even if you do have to
think about how to use it)), but that does not mean it is not an important
feature, nor that it shouldn't work well for those who do use it.

I hope stripping of Resent-Subject: will be a feature of 1.8e, and I would
like to know why the 1.8e LISTSERV "antivirus" feature will be for certain
platforms but not others, if such is the case. I would also like to see a
posting, on this list, about all 1.8e features, as to how they differ from
the standard and latest 1.8d (including level sets as not all 1.8d sites
have installed the "level sets").

Douglas Winship
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