Subject: Re: [FFML] [spam] webpage and survey results
From: Sean Connor
Date: 11/24/1998, 4:41 PM
To: Rhialto <rhialto@easynet.co.uk>, MAIL LIST FanFic <ffml@fanfic.com>

On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 05:50:48PM -0000, Rhialto wrote:

Any UNIX mailer: cannot read any attachment that is not plain text (txt).

Actually, this isn't true anymore.  By properly configuring your
mailcap file, you can teach any MIME-aware Unix mailer (and most
of them are, nowadays) to display most kinds of documents -- yes,
even those darn MS-Turd documents.

I think the best format is to send fics as part of teh main body of the
email, in English, in plain text (not html-ised), with paragraphs properly
formatted. Large fics are probably best sent as a series of 30k (or whatever
your limit is) articles. Really large fics (1mb plus) are probably best sent
as a zip attachment, and then only by specific request to individuals.

I don't know about this.  It's amazing how many newbies out there simply
are unable to grasp the concept of a zip file.  

-- -Sean Connor (sec@konatsu.ml.org) (sec@cableregina.com) (sec@softhome.net) Quick to judge, quick to anger, Slow to understand, Ignorance and prejudice, And fear go hand in hand...