Re: st: NO attachments please

[Taavi Lai <taavi.lai@ut.ee>]

Dear all,

I do not have a suggestion how to make that statement more clear, rather 
a suggestion for possible addition: propose some options how to share 
those files with statalisters.

My personal favourite course of action for files I can't attach is to 
upload the files to my webpage and give a link in the email. Such 
behaviour doesn't seem to be very uncommon in statalist (links to repec 
and postings of Friedrich Huebler as an example).
Second such suggestion would be: in case of text files (like ado/do) to 
use copy/paste

Probably there are more options for shearing your files with everybody, 
but these two seemed the most straightforward to me.

Best regards,
Taavi Lai


Nick Cox wrote:

> The Statalist FAQ is totally explicit. 
> In section 2.2, 
> "We ask you not to post formatted messages or attachments. 
> In fact, Statalist software may trap these formatted 
> messages or attachments without sending an error message 
> to you. Please make sure that your mailer is set to "Plain 
> Text" for outgoing messages (or the equivalent for your 
> mailer); that is, do not send HTML, Rich Text, VCards, 
> winmail.dat files, other attachments, or anything other 
> than Plain Text." 
> And again in section 3. 
> "Please do not include attachments. Many members have 
> mailers that cannot handle them. In any case, attachments can 
> spread viruses and clog up mailers with unwanted large files."
>
> If anyone has any suggestions about how this could made
> clearer, do please let me know. 
> Nick 
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 
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