Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/11/04/10:43:30
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, DJ Delorie wrote:
>
> I personally can't use mime very easily, and prefer uuencode. Each
> has its drawbacks, and neither should be used in this forum (either
> the code is small enough to just paste into your message, or it's too
> big to post). When someone attaches a zip file, I have to save the
> mail in a file, go to an xterm, move the file back into my mail spool,
> fire up a different mailer that supports MIME, read the message, save
> the attached zip file, bring up the xterm again, unzip it into a temp
> directory, fire up an editor, look at the source, cut and paste it
> back into my original mailer, indent it by hand, reply to it, and go
> back and clean up the temporary files. I'd rather just read the
> source in the original mail and reply to it from there.
I can see from your example that binaries can be quite a hassle for
some people. I could agree to alos banning this type of posts, if someone
wants to send me binaries I'll ask them to send them directly.
Alternatively, we could make an al.binaries.djgpp newsgroup, but there may
be not enough interest for that...
>
> For small files, please just paste them right into the mail message so
> I can read them right in my mailer. For big files, WWW or FTP is much
> better traffic-wise.
>
> Can we keep this topic off the newsgroup now, like I originally asked?
>
Ok, I'm sorry, I posted my message before I read your message in wich you
asked to do so. Silly me :).
Bjorn De Meyer.
IA #i^4
Homepage: http://studwww.rug.ac.be/~bgdmeyer
E-mail: bjorn DOT demeyer AT rug DOT ac DOT be
Licentiate Chemistry.
Coordinator of the "Tales of Artah: First Sword" CRPG project.
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