I have sent two test files (a text file that failed to make it
through to the list) to Ask Bjorn Hansen and received these replies:
1) in relation to a 'BinHex' attachement:
At 2:53 am -0800 16/02/01, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote:
>yes, application/mac-binhex40 is filtered out. If you can ask on the
>list and get consensus for not doing that I'll take it out.
2) in relation to an 'AppleDouble' (MIME'd) attachment.
At 2:53 am -0800 16/02/01, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote:
>in the second file you sent, the data part of the attachment would
>have made it through. And be easily readable for all mail readers
>too. (it is just text after all).
So the question to us all is: do we want the 'BinHex' filter removed?
My own feeling is I _would_ like to see it removed. Unencoded
scripts, documents with long lines and/or high-ascii characters
always get mangled along the way. For Mac users 'BinHex' is kind of
the conditioned reflex and for Eudora fans the usual (?) default
setting.
Alan Fry
