Michael Langford wrote:
> Attachments are a bad thing to send to open mailing lists in general.
Perhaps in general they are, but specifically, I'd prefer code that's 
decently long to be attached or pastebinned.
e-mail clients and servers are often unfriendly on code.
That's the point of attachments.  Differentiating between data and text, 
so the various middlemen can manipulate the text
however they feel without affecting the 'payload', as it were.
P.S. every single e-mail I've ever gotten from you has come with an 
attachment.
It's called part 1.2.txt and contains
""" _______________________________________________
Tutor maillist  -  [email protected]
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
"""
Based on this observation alone, I'd have to say I don't think the tutor 
list minds attachments.
>
> In your case, the list appears to have filtered off the code. Please 
> paste it in inline.
I think it's more likely he just forgot to attach it.
I've been on this list for 2 years and I've never heard of problems with 
attachments not going through.

It's not inherently less intrusive to paste the code inline, and it has 
unpleasant side-effects in certain situations.
Most e-mail clients that I'm aware of are set to, by default, inline the 
code at the end of the e-mail as you're viewing it anyway.
-Luke
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