Re: OT: Virii on vger.kernel.org lists

[Miles Lane]

On 01 Aug 2001 22:38:19 -0700, Paul G. Allen wrote:
> "J . A . Magallon" wrote:
> > 
> 
> [SNIP]
> > 
> > That is the always repeated answer. I could get a web page at some box at the
> > University, but there are many people that have not a permanent address. Going
> > to the mess of using a ISP-provided web page is a pain. Instead of bzip your
> > patch and send it to the list you have to go through bizarre http interfaces
> > to manage your web page (tell me about a ISP that lets you telnet/ssh/ftp to your
> > account).
> > 
> > I do not see why a bzipped patch is so bad. The only person I was aware he won't
> > read anything but plain text is Linus (and now some on this thread look with
> > the same feeling).
> > 
> 
> There are a few reasons why zipped attachments, large attachments, and
> even large text-only patches are bad on a mailing list such as this:
> 
> 1. Not everyone uses a mail client that will support the various
> attachment encodings and therefore can not get the attachment without
> jumping through hoops. Why subject them to this?

<snip>

One interface that provides an easy mechanism for posting attachments
is Bugzilla.  See http://bugzilla.gnome.org.  If you open a bug report,
you can add file attachments after initially creating the bug.
Something similar might work very well for the LKML needs.
All that is really required is a web server, some Bugzilla-like
method of pointing to a file and having that get posted to the
web server.  Then, a unique link to the posted file can be returned
that the user can then send along to LKML.

	Miles