UUencoding, UUdecoding, etc.

[Steve Lamb]

Monday, May 22, 2000, 1:15:18 PM, Jonathan wrote:
> Not everyone knows how to do that

    Sorry, ignorance is not an excuse for breaking standards.

> or has access to a server with space.

    Bull.  We've gone over this several times.

    10 seconds:  Yahoo! search on "free web"

http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Business_to_Business/Communications_and_Networking/Internet_and_World_Wide_Web/Network_Service_Providers/Hosting/Web_Site_Hosting/Free_Web_Pages/

    On a quick glance some offer up to 50Mb of space.

    15 seconds later:  Yahoo! search on "internet drive"

http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Shopping_and_Services/Communication_and_Information_Management/Internet_and_World_Wide_Web/Personal_Information_Management/File_Hosting/

    Places that offer, most for free, drive space on the internet so you don't
need to worry about carrying floppies around to access files from different
locations.  Most also allow public access to files through HTTP and
instructions on how to direct people to those files.  Just picking one on a
lark, X:drive, 100Mb of space, free, secure or share files.

    Everyone who has access to the internet (which most people with access to
email do) also has access to literally dozens of servers offering them space.
It is a much better alternative than trying to /CRAM/ a file through an
interface and technology that was never designed to handle it, that is
obviously limited, and risk annoying the person on the other end when sending
a link is virtually identical to them.

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