From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 9 10: 8:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE70937B400; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 10:08:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cmailg3.svr.pol.co.uk (cmailg3.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.195.173]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76EB943E42; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 10:08:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Robin.Melville@nadt.org.uk) Received: from modem-3921.wolf.dialup.pol.co.uk ([81.76.143.81] helo=jade.highwire.local) by cmailg3.svr.pol.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 17RyTO-0007Ap-00; Tue, 09 Jul 2002 18:08:23 +0100 Received: from [10.0.1.175] (robslap.highwire.local [10.0.1.175]) by jade.highwire.local (Postfix) with ESMTP id B791B18C8F; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 18:08:13 +0100 (BST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: robmel@mailhost (Unverified) Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <005701c22757$ae8d77a0$5cab3a40@vizion2000.net> References: <005701c22757$ae8d77a0$5cab3a40@vizion2000.net> Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 18:08:29 +0100 To: From: Robin.Melville@nadt.org.uk Subject: Re: Plain text posting Cc: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 7:48 am -0700 9/7/02, vizion communication wrote: >Hi >[...snip...] >Can we please stick to plain text UNLESS the material cannot >reasonably be transmitted without being in attachment form. >There is no benefit to be gained from attachments otherwise. I heartily concur. An additional problem is in message digests where the relationship between the attachment and the original message is lost. One finds onself scrolling through reams of base64. Robin. -- Robin Melville, Information manager Addiction & Forensic Information Service Nottingham Healthcare NHS Tust Tel: +44 (0)115 952 9478 Fax: +44 (0)115 952 9421 email: robmel@nadt.org.uk Pages: http://www.nadt.org.uk/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message