X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Will Parsons Subject: Re: Attachment without nntp Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:07:26 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: <005c01c87584$518c6f30$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <012c01c876f1$94f095d0$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <003601c8779b$4af55f10$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <47C2D268.2080300@cygwin.com> <47C80546.6060005@byu.net> Reply-To: ellenophilos@yahoo.com User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (FreeBSD) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Eric Blake wrote: > > According to Marc Girod on 2/29/2008 4:05 AM: >| Well, I tried now the alternative road, and installed TunderBird. >| I guess I got what I expected: neither nntp nor snntp (563) ports are >| drilled in my company's firewall. >| >| So, this road is blocked too, no? > > I've been annoyed at gmane, too - they provide both http and nntp > gateways, but only their nntp gateway allows attaching files. I may be > shot for suggesting this, but there are other mail gateways out there > besides gmane. For example, nabble.com provides an http gateway and > allows attaching files when composing posts to a wrapped mailing list. > Then again, nabble's idea of an attachment is sending a URL that requires > web access on the reader's end to download the file, rather than sending a > multipart message with the file attached in the message itself, so that > idea doesn't really fly on this list, either. Perhaps I'd better say something here, since I am the one who suggested uuencoding the cygcheck output. I've done this in the past and gotten no complaints, and that's how I see other perople's attached cygcheck output. I can't speak for the OP, but my situation is as follows: 1) Being able to treat mailing lists as news groups is a huge gain, especially in the case of a high-volume list such as Cygwin's. 2) Besides the cygwin list, I follow a large number of other lists via Gmane. As far as I know, there is no good alternative to Gmain - Using Nabble via a web interface is simply unacceptable. 3) I don't like graphical news clients. I use slrn to read news (or mail turned into news), on all the platforms I use, both Unixy ones and Windows. When I post or respond to an article, slrn fires up the editor of my choice (in may case Emacs), and I compose a text message. There is no such thing as an "attachment". 4) If using the uuencode method for attachments is not (or no longer?) desired, is there a preferred alternative? (And please don't suggest using Thunderbird.) - Will -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/