Re: Attachments

ctmurray@mmm.com
Thu, 9 Jul 1998 08:58:01 -0500

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>But surely there is. I don't understand what's wrong with good old email.
>So many other lists manage it, (MIME compatible or otherwise). I've yet
>to read my list mail via an attachment.
>
>BTW, this digest didn't arrive as an attachment?
Through this transition to MIME type the form of the digest has not
changed on my end. I recall reading that whether an email message came as
an attachment or not was a function of the recipients internet server.
Once emails go above a certain length the server changes them from a
regular email to an attachment. (or the other way around, all emails are
attachments from server to server and only short ones are converted back
to a non-attached mode?). AOL had a limit of 32 K bytes otherwise the
item was forced to be an attachment. So it is possible the reason the
recent digest was not an attachment, was it's shorter length. Also, this
would indicate that your server might be configured to not create the
attachments.

Cameron T. Murray
3M Industrial Tape and Specialties Division
Building 230-2E-11
612-736-9294
ctmurray@mmm.com

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