On Sep 10, 2010, at 10:32 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
Hi, everybody
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Min-Han Tan ><minhan.scie...@gmail.com
> wrote:
David said my R code text attachment got rejected by the mailing list.
Pooh. I don't think that's nice. I don't see anything in the
posting guide about a limit on text attachments.
Paul: It's not in the Posting Guide but it is in the Mailing list
information page:
"Furthermore, most binary e-mail attachments are not accepted, i.e.,
they are removed from the posting completely. As an exception, we
allow application/pdf, application/postscript, and image/png (and x-
tar and gzip on R-devel). You can use text/plain as well, or simply
paste text into your message instead. "
And as I said the filter is very dumb. <filename>.R files are
intercepted but the very same file with the name <filename>.txt will
be passed through intact. Now I would agree if you said those
directions were ambiguous and even possibly misleading, but it did
lead me to successful interactions with the mailserver in the past, so
I decided it wasn't worth a complaint. As I understand it the amount
of control that the list maintainers exert over the server behavior is
pretty limited.
--
David.
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