diffs for aging of leases files

[Brian J. Murrell]

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> I certainly didn't mean to cause anybody a problem here...

No problems really Barr.  Just figuring out some "standards" for a new
list.  Hey we are breaking new ground.

> I'm sitting behind three layers of firewalls and proxy servers, so it's
> nearly impossible for me to FTP a file to another location, and no one
> outside the company's intranet is permitted access using FTP to any
> server
> inside, so-o-o, the only thing I can do is to e-mail stuff.

Yeah, I hear your plight.  FTP would be worse anyway.

> As I see it now, some people can easily handle plain text encodings as
> attachments to mail messages, some cannot.

I think what has come to consensus is attaching them as "text/plain" and
setting the disposition to "inline" (if you don't know what this is or your
mailer doesn't support you specifying, don't worry about it) is the way to
go.  Cutting and pasting is not really that terrible a thing for me, and it
sounds easier for me than unmimifying is for Ted, and it sounds like
"text/plain, inline" will make it through the list software.

> Don't know what I can do about
> that, although I am open to suggestions [ polite ones, that is!  :') ]

If you attach them as "text files" (or something similar in your MUA) then
all should be fine.  Maybe you need to put an extention (such as .txt) on
the file before you attach it if you are on one of them dang boxes (read:
windblows) that associate mime-types with extensions.

> In the future, I'll use a different "dot" extension (such as ".txt") to
> avoid (if possible!) funny encodings.

That would probably do it.

> As someone, maybe Brian, suggested,
> the size of attached difference files should be limited to a "reasonable"
> size -- yet to be determined.

At some point it makes sense to mail them directly to Ted I think, rather
than plopping them in everybody's mailbox here individually, unless it
really is "contrib" type stuff that Ted has no intention to rolling in. 
Where that point is?  I guess we will find out when the first person
complains that their mailbox blew up.  ~grin~

> Would gnuzip'ed or WinZip'ed attachments be
> preferable?

Definately not.  Those would be stripped for sure!!

> ..again, sorry to have caused any agita....

Don't worry about it Barr.  It was all definately worth seeing the work you
did.  Now for the actual patches... ~smile~

b.



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Brian J. Murrell                                        Brian_Murrell at bctel.net
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