At 5:25 PM -0800 on 11/5/99, Alain Farmer wrote:

>Alain: I was assuming that we were proceeding as most
>lists do (e.g. NO attachments allowed). The procedure
>that I was proposing was an elegant alternative
>because it doesn't burden the list with attachments,
>yet allows anyone that is interested to download it
>right away. It does not take into your concerns
>though. So we may have to reconsider our position on
>allowing attachments or not.

I should point out that most _development_ lists I've seen (AbiWord, LAME,
FreeCiv, Bison etc.) do allow attachment of patches, especially small ones.

You just have to keep it within reason -- don't send a 500K file to the list.

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