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.

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.  

Tom