K.D. wrote: >I've got access to the Web (through my AOL account), but I don't have any >coding capacity, as far as I know. AOL might use different terminology, such as "attachments". I'll be happy to send a small uuencoded file to anyone who requests it so we can see if your emailer automatically recognizes it. If anyone wants to test their mime-decoding capability, I can send one that way too. UUencoding (like mime-encoding) is just a method to email files that may include nontext characters. (Text is alphanumerics and punctuation.) Examples of such files: word-processor formatted documents, software, digitized sound, digitized images, digitized video. Since some parts of the internet are old (can only handle 7-bit words), and some bytes have special meanings to email software, such files would be distorted by the net. Encoding translates a file so it uses only alphanumerics and punctuation characters, and a header and footer is inserted which contains instructions (like the filename) for the receivers' decoders. Encoded files are 33% bigger than the originals, but this is a small price to pay to be able to send them intact. UUencoding is an older standard than mime-encoding, so is more ubiquitous, and I'd expect even AOL supports it. Mime has a few more features. Many email packages offer both, and the trend is to support both. - - - There are alternative ways to send nontext files, like FTP (which is a transfer protocol your web browser can use to download files). But ftp requires the file be available on some internet site which is running ftp server software. It's not an "I send to you" method; it's an "I upload to ftpsite, then you download from ftpsite" method. That's something I should have asked about too... Does anyone have access to space on an ftp server so we can store election reform files like FAQs? If the goal of this maillist is to produce FAQs, it would be nice to have a place to post them so they can be downloaded by others. I can probably get a couple MBytes at ftp://alumni.caltech.edu/pub/seppley/ if I ask the administrator nicely to make the directory for me. ---Steve (Steve Eppley [EMAIL PROTECTED])
