Re: LOGO-L> Attaching code to e-mail

[bh@anarres.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Brian Harvey)]

Peter Tomcsanyi <tomcsany@internet.sk> writes:
>I use Eudora Lite (a quite commonly used mailer, I think) and it is not
>able to decode UUencoded attachments, so I have to save the e-mail to a
>file and to decode it using another program.
>Most of the attachments on this list are MIME or BINHEX encoded, which
>cause no problem for Eudora Lite. Just the two most recent attachments
>(sent by Mike Sandy's Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5) were UUencoded.
>I would like to ask the senders of attachments not to use UUencode if
>possible in favour of Eudora Lite users.

And this is one reason why that incredibly rude person, despite being
incredibly rude, was right.  Although any encoding is a pain for me,
uuencode is much less of a pain than either mime or binhex, so I would
have to vote the other way.  This is why ASCII, which everyone can read,
is the only reasonable representation for text in widely distributed
messages.

Paste *and* attach, George's second suggestion, is not so bad as just
attaching, his first suggestion, provided that you paste first and
attach second!



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