> On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Craig Milo Rogers wrote:
> > Better than that, simply strip all non-text MIME attachments,
> > or bounce the messages containing them. End of story.
> That has the rather stupid effect of also killing gzip/bzip2ed patches
> that come to the list. Survey says: BZZZZZT!
and the response to that argument was that such patches are just as hard
or harder to turn into readable/usable form when included on the list as
when posted on an ftp/web site, so it's better to spare people's mailboxes
from huge attachments and just provide a url to the patch.
justin
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