RE: Dirtside II eval (fwd)

On Sat, 29 May 1999, Chen-Song Qin wrote:

> On Fri, 28 May 1999, Tim Jones wrote:
> 
> > NO ATTACHMENTS ALLOWED - no matter how small
> > 
> > 24Kb word files translates to a lot of ASCII
> > MIME code.
> 
> Sorry about that...
> BTW what kind of mail readers do people use?	How do attachments show
up?
> Oerjan was talking about looking at a lot of little squares?

well, i can give you the worst-case secanrio. i use pine, a text-mode
mail
client, running on a DEC unix machine, accessed via telnet (well, ssh).
i
can save attachments to disk, but i can't read word files and i
certainly
can't run win95 executables. if i really need to, i can export jpegs,
gifs, html, text and other sensible file types to my website where i can
view them via a browser, as long as they're not bigger than 17 kB, as
then
i'd go over my quota.

and then, when the server's down, it's telnet oxmail 110 | tee pop.log
...

so, i'd be happiest if people use standard, plaintext email, and if you
have something chunkier you want to send along, put it on the list's
website, and post a link to it.

to make it a little easier to use the website, i've put up a readme
file:

http://members.xoom.com/gzg_l/readme.html

any comments or additions would be most welcome. perhaps the site should
be mentioned in the meta-faq, or in the list signup message?

tom