On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Randall R Schulz wrote:-
>On Tuesday 23 October 2007 07:48, David Bolt wrote:
>> I'm not too keen on adding attachments to mailing lists, especially
>> since it is known for them to be removed. One thing I didn't do was
>> to wrap the script with <snippet> </snippet> marks.
>
>It is _known_ that they are _not removed_.
Then there has been a change, to that policy, as I have almost several
thousand archived messages from this list that have the header:
X-MIME-Notice: attachments may have been removed from this message
which suggests that attachments may be removed.
>(Just look at the "Suspicious Update" thread for an example. In that
>case, it's an image attachment, no less. Yours was just a text file.)
I noticed. Interestingly enough, I notice that the message with the
846KiB uncompressed tiff as an attachment also has that same header. As
to why the poster couldn't have used compression, I don't know. Saving
it with Gimp as a PNG reduced it to 22KiB. A later post, also contained
image attachments of 216KiB and 375KiB. These reduced to 17Kib and
25KiB.
>> >(though I commend you for not allowing the lines to wrap—most people
>> >don't even bother to do that).
>>
>> What I should have done isn't make the long lines so they didn't
>> wrap, but to split them up to make the script easier to read.
>
>I refuse to be limited by the data formats of 30+ years ago... I mean,
>Hollerith cards? Come on.
It's a common courtesy to those using console mail applications, which
was why I think I should have wrapped it.
As for Hollerith cards, as long as you keep them in the correct order,
what's wrong with them ;-)
Regards,
David Bolt
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