Brian's right - attached files in any form are a complete pain as not
everyone's machine can read them. It's much better to include
everyhting in the main body of the text if at all possible.
Chris
On Tue, 14 Oct 1997 09:19:43 +0100 (BST) Brian Kelly <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Oct 1997 [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
> > I've discovered another problem (or, at least, one instance of a problem that
> > may be widespread) with .pdf files: I access my e-mail from home and on a
> > number of occasions have been timed out because of slow downloading of a
> > message. It happened again tonight - after three attempts and finally
> > reconfiguring the time-out feature of the software, I discovered... an e-mail
> > message with an attached .pdf file was causing the problem. Has anyone else
> > experienced this?
>
> I don't think that attached files should be sent to mailing list. It can
> cause all sorts of problems, as Tom indicates. I think (but aren't sure)
> that this is a Mailbase recommendation. Can anyone confirm this?
>
> Brian
>
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