Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 11:41, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 12:11:16PM -0400, Mike Mueller wrote:
> > On Tuesday 30 September 2003 02:05, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > > Seems
> > > like about the only way we're going to get a reasonable handle on this
> > > barring ISPs refusing to carry executables in email format.
> >
> > Hear! Hear! No more attachments - period. I'll settle for elimination of
> > any known sort of executable though.
>
> While I agree with the second, the first is wrong. If nothing else,
> MIME-attached files are an excellent way to transport patches safely,
> avoiding various mangling that can happen to inline text.
Anything that you don't want mangled, it's good for. dmesg and syslog
output also come to mind.
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