From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Feb 24 15: 4:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (phoenix.welearn.com.au [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A5C111132 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 15:03:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.0) id KAA26576; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 10:02:54 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <19990225100247.46453@welearn.com.au> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 10:02:47 +1100 From: Sue Blake To: Loren Thiel Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wd?s? References: <199902242116.PAA15929@battleship.genevaonline.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <199902242116.PAA15929@battleship.genevaonline.com>; from Loren Thiel on Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 03:12:00PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 03:12:00PM -0600, Loren Thiel wrote: > Sorry everyone, my table got extremely mangled somewhere in the transmission. > I've resent it as an attachment this time, and also as a zip file as a last > resort. > They should be MIME encoded, hope that's the most preferred method these > days...I used to use UUencoding myself. > Sorry for the confusion. If you send attachments to a FreeBSD list (other than to -newbies while you're learning) you are likely to find that a few people complain. This is especially so when the attachments need some other software before you can access them. When something like output is to be included in email to a list, simply paste it as plain text into the body of the email. Then nobody needs to stop and use special software that they might not have (or be bothered to use). If the information is not text, or if it is large, consider alternatives such as putting it on a web or FTP site where people can get it, rather than forcing thousands of list subscribers to each download it with their mail. What's appropriate and what's not appropriate will vary a little depending on the place and circumstances, but this should help as a rough guide to what people expect. See the following links for more general guides to using the lists: http://www.welearn.com.au/freebsd/newbies/ http://www.lemis.com/questions.html http://www.lemis.com/email.html and ask here on freebsd-newbies if you have any more questions about using the mailing lists, or about email in general. -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message