On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 11:41, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 12:11:16PM -0400, Mike Mueller wrote: > > On Tuesday 30 September 2003 02:05, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > Seems > > > like about the only way we're going to get a reasonable handle on this > > > barring ISPs refusing to carry executables in email format. > > > > Hear! Hear! No more attachments - period. I'll settle for elimination of > > any known sort of executable though. > > While I agree with the second, the first is wrong. If nothing else, > MIME-attached files are an excellent way to transport patches safely, > avoiding various mangling that can happen to inline text.
Anything that you don't want mangled, it's good for. dmesg and syslog output also come to mind. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA 4 degrees from Vladimir Putin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
