Michael Collette wrote:

>If the concern is disk space, then decoding them attachments on the way in 
>actually saves quite a bit.  Uuencoding tends to bulk up the file size 
>somewhere from 10-20% (shooting from the hip here) of the original file.
>
Right, my personal experience is that base64 (I think that's what it 
was) blows up by about 30%.

>I would agree that release notes are the appropriate place for letting the 
>user know about possible interaction problems resulting in crashes, or just 
>not getting along with other apps.  For a problem resulting in critical 
>dataloss in something as important as E-Mail I don't believe that 
>approaches an adequate solution.
>
But we can, on installation or startup, check, if one of the problematic 
AV packages is running and warn the user using a dialog box. We do 
something like that, if the user tries to install Mozilla with another 
Mozilla running.

>Anyone who actually reads release notes probably doesn't have much in the 
>way of virus problems in the first place.  It's them folks that don't read 
>documentation that are the concern, and I'd guess that them folks are 
>probably in the vast majority.
>
You are probably right here. If you are speaking about Netscape and 
Beonex, not raw Mozilla.


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