Re: Should attachments be accepted in comp.lang.c?

In article <2246331.ILUC65yT0V@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Mikhail Teterin <usenet+meow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You may also start another thread on the subject:

Should everyone be *forced* to post in the same manner?

Because I don't see, how your troubles (or lack thereof) are supposed to
compell *me*. My postings are on-topic of the news-group, and so are the
attachements.


* Allowing attachments certainly won't help encourage people to post

Uhh, place a maximum size limit, then. This is silly...

I don't see why your maximum size limit should compell *me*. If my
posting is on-topic and so are my attachments, then why should I be
*forced* to restrict myself to your arbitrary limits? It's not like
I'm planning to post 62 petabytes or something silly like that --
a few dozen terabytes should be enough this year, and by the time I need
a petabyte, you'll be on a faster connection anyhow.


A MIME-aware newsreader, that does not offer to show the attachment as plain
text (especially, if the type is set to text/*) is broken...

trn does not so offer. trn offers to process the whole article
through an external mime decoder (not provided with trn), and if
one has such as decoder, odds are that the external decoder will offer
to save the attachment to disk rather than to display it (since the
external decoder doesn't know that it's invoked in the context of
a newsgroup article.)
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