> My sense of netiquette would tell me to put for instance a large trace on a
> server and post the link - or describe the question as accurately as I can
> and invite people to get a private mail from me, should they express
> interest in helping out.
it would be a lot shorter had it been compressed before uuencoding.
> Is this not the recommended method on this list? I'm genuinely interested
> because I've seen other lists where people also post very large mails and
> seemingly no one objects which may be because everyone but me has
> "always-on"/flatrate connections and I'm just being old-fashioned.
the last time I recall a thread about this - it was split between post-a-link
and don't-uuencode-because-its-hard-to-read.
> Morten
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