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28 Jul 2024 20:27:37 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Can you please stop sending binary files to this group?  
From: Brad S  Freeman
Date: 9 Jun 1999 14:25:29
Message: <375eb199@news.povray.org>
I'm using Outlook Express, and the one thing which is nasty when you don't
attach the files but paste them into the message body is that O.E.
interprets comment lines that start with a double slash as links and
prefixes them with file://
Quite annoying...

--Brad


> You should say:  copy & paste, don't attach.  When I attach POV files with
> Netscape (they are plain-text, BTW), it converts them to binary, even
> though I didn't expect it to.  Now I just copy & paste my scenes into the
> body of the message.
>
> -Nathan
>
> Nieminen Mika wrote:
> >
> >   This is not a binary group. This is a text group. So can you please
stop
> > sending binary attachments here? Those go to the povray.binaries groups.
> > As the name of the group states, this is a text group, meaning that you
> > should send your sources in plain text.
> >   Thanks.


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