On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 23:51:47 +0200, Eul_Bofo wrote:


> 
>> On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:00:10 +0200, Nicolas FRANCOIS wrote:
>> 
>>> The file seems to have been
>>> converted to some strange binary format.
>> 
>> It's uuencoded; zipping it won't fix it because your newsreader is not
>> understanding the uuencoding.  Thunderbird and Pan both decode it just
>> fine...
> 
> Fine, I'm using Pan ;-) Didn't see it was uuencoded. Oh, I see it now : I
> read it with Sylpheed Claws. I use both because I don't know how to join
> files with Pan :-(

Pan does the decoding automatically for you; I didn't see it that way
either, I had to look wthi Thunderbird.

When you say "join files", do you mean post files?  If so, that is a
feature in Pan that's not been developed.  A lot of the people who use pan
use it for pulling files from binary groups rather than posting - they
tend to use something like newspost for posting files, so that feature has
been low on the list for quite some time.  I remember back in the 0.7 and
0.8 days, there was actually a section in the message post dialog to add
files, but it wasn't implemented.

Myself, I tend to avoid posting binaries alltogether, instead posting URLs
to the files on web pages.  That way I don't put other readers in the
position of deciding whether or not a file is something they're interested
in before they've read the text of the message; with most readers,
downloading message content is an all-or-nothing proposition, and I prefer
to let those who read my posts decide if they think a potential binary
attachment is something they want to look at or not. :-)

Jim

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