PLEASE use MIME Atttachments! (was: Re: [FIX] Comments for Set...)
Volker Nitsch
nitsch-lists at netcologne.de
Mon Apr 29 17:17:30 UTC 2002
Am Montag, 29. April 2002 01:59 schrieb Richard A. O'Keefe:
> goran.hultgren at bluefish.se wrote:
> And if you have made a contribution to Squeak, then you have Celeste
> etc. And then you should be able to send a mail to the list using that.
>
> Yes, I tried that, and as I said, IT DIDN'T WORK.
[snip]
>
> Had I had any part in the decision, I would have argued as strongly as
> I could against attachments, on the grounds that
> - they are not necessary,
> - they are not supported by all mail user agents,
> - they are notorious for insecurity.
> But then, I'm the kind of troglodyte for prefers plain text messages
> to Microsoft Word attachments...
>
> I am of course perfectly willing to use whatever method *works*.
Why using attachements/uuencode at all?
it should be easy to encode and decode binaries to
base64, putting 'SQUEAK-ENCODED!' '!END-SQUEAK-ENCODED'
around and having a tool to extract then?
squeak-encode a file and paste it to the mailer.
copy whole mail and paste it to SqueakMailDecoderMorph.
would be also nice because of web-searched mailing lists
without atachement support.
just 'copy all' in browser :)
Greetings
Volker
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