[PLUG] Attachments not received
Rich Shepard
rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Sun Apr 11 07:31:01 UTC 2004
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Paul Johnson wrote:
> Convince the admins of such broken sites to find a better solution. And I
> don't just criticize, I create. http://ursine.ca/~baloo/clamd-exiscan.txt
I've no idea where, or by whom, their mail server is maintained. And,
since computer issues are not what I sell I stay far away from involvement
with them.
> Do you get much compression out of that? I was under the impression
> that PDF is a compressed format to start with.
It's not for the compression, Paul, but for packaging a set of related
articles together for convenience -- mine and theirs.
> Probably the case. Just send a tarball instead, WinZip easily handles
> tarballs and they're not anywhere near as likely to trip things up
> except with sites whose admins are suffering from severe recto-cranial
> inversion.
Oh. I didn't realize that Microsoft officially recognized anything not
invented (or modified) in Redmond. Heck, I'd rather tar them than zip 'em.
> Three off the top of my head:
>
> 1) Try sending the PDF bare.
Those don't make it either. :-)
> 2) Convince the site's admins to fix their broken mail server.
Not my job and I won't get involved in anything outside my professional
expertise.
> 3) Give the recipient a login on your server.
I suppose that I could send them a list of URLs to each article on my Web
site. I'll seriously consider this.
> 4) Find some other method to send the file.
Under worse-case conditions I print and mail.
Many thanks,
Rich
--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
<http://www.appl-ecosys.com>
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