[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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