David Johnston wrote:

For the record, the most common reason for attachments is that the
chapter or fic is too long to fit into the 30kb limitation.  Laziness
has nothing to do with it, just the desire not to break up the story
into seperate posts.

What 30K limit?  That sounds like an end-user software problem.  You 

can

always GNU split or csplit and have it chop the file into parts pipe it
into mail.

  Lazy people like me absolutely HATE looking for multi-part stories 
chopped up like this (heaven forbid you let the COMPUTER do it for you; 
imagine a rather important passage cut in mid-sentence, and ruins the 
rest of the fic for you). 
  And, unlike you, I suppose, people like me DO have a 30k message size 
limit, and as a hotmail user there's NOTHING I can do about it. 

if if you say you don't do Unix take a look at:

http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/

There are a number of utilities here that authors can make good use out
of on their files before posting to make sure they are formatted
correctly and the right size.  

  That assumes the programs are of any use and can be used by the 
occasional net jock. 

"That's my story and I'm sticking to it."--JMS, creator of Babylon 5. 
"If you go to Z'ha'dum, you will die."--Kosh, Babylon 5.
"Understanding is a three-edged sword."--Kosh, Babylon 5. 
"Never show your hand until the end."--me, being profound. 

--Razorclaw X

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