Hi - > > > > I am quite curious as to _why_ Aonix would attempt to use > > an attachment rather than straight text. While the Aonix > > web site had some sort of a fancy graphic logo the last time > > I looked, it added absolutely nothing to my compiler-buying > > experience. > > The only reason it was an attachment, was that it was a copy of an html file. > Thus attaching it seemed simpler. Better to just send a URL, if it was an HTML file. Then readers could browse to the file online. > > I think restricting attachments, so that even ".txt" files can not be sent is > overly pessimistic. It is annoying to have to cut and past text files just to > send an e-mail, but I guess that's what I would have to do. As the manager of a number of lists, I know only too well the limitations of listserv-type software. Generally the option to accept or reject attachments is all-or-nothing. I agree that in a list with several hundred members, devoted to advocacy discussions and not file exchange, it is quite reasonable to reject attachments. This is better from a security standpoint, and also it avoids capacity problems because writers aren't tempted to send multi-mb attachments around. Finally, there are actually segments of this community that are not Windoze-based, and have used e-mail since many in the Windoze community were in diapers. Many UNIX-based mail clients do not handle attachments, and rightly so, IMHO. The attachment craze has gone a bit far, I think. Mike Feldman