Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 18:10:54 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199811032310.SAA03635@indy.delorie.com> From: DJ Delorie To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com In-reply-to: <199811032249.WAA19428@relay.clara.net> (arfa@clara.net) Subject: Re: Lewt's vote! was Re: Ban HTML postings? Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com I personally can't use mime very easily, and prefer uuencode. Each has its drawbacks, and neither should be used in this forum (either the code is small enough to just paste into your message, or it's too big to post). When someone attaches a zip file, I have to save the mail in a file, go to an xterm, move the file back into my mail spool, fire up a different mailer that supports MIME, read the message, save the attached zip file, bring up the xterm again, unzip it into a temp directory, fire up an editor, look at the source, cut and paste it back into my original mailer, indent it by hand, reply to it, and go back and clean up the temporary files. I'd rather just read the source in the original mail and reply to it from there. For small files, please just paste them right into the mail message so I can read them right in my mailer. For big files, WWW or FTP is much better traffic-wise. Can we keep this topic off the newsgroup now, like I originally asked? > BTW, which is the most supported format - MIME or UUencode? I've always > thought UUencode was the best supported, but I'd like to hear confirmation > of this.