Message-ID: <16380.1428.217189.68645@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
Date: 2004-01-07T13:11:48Z
From: Martin Maechler
Subject: Attachments in R-help postings {was "... reading large tables"}
In-Reply-To: <3d3mvvo8b3fkece7lt5crg08osleem2jn3@4ax.com>
>>>>> "Duncan" == Duncan Murdoch <dmurdoch at pair.com>
>>>>> on Tue, 06 Jan 2004 14:43:22 -0500 writes:
Duncan> On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 14:03:47 -0500, Daniel Sumers
Duncan> Myers <dmyers at umiacs.umd.edu> wrote :
..........
Duncan> P.S. You can't send attachments to the mailing list,
yes, you can, if you use the proper "Content-Type", e.g.,
'text/plain' is ok, see below.
Duncan> so I didn't see your data file.
He forgot it, and then tried to resend it. That second try
failed because the full length message became over 500k bytes;
and these currently are completely filtered irrespectively of
content (one needs a limit for large messages: these could bog
down the machine(s) that do the mail filtering).
On the topic of e-mail attachments,
http://www.R-project.org/mail.html#instructions says
>> Furthermore, most binary e-mail attachments are not accepted,
>> i.e., they are removed from the posting completely. As an
>> exception, we allow application/pdf, application/postscript,
>> and image/png (and x-tar and gzip on R-devel). You can use
>> text/plain as well, or simply paste text into your message instead.
Regards,
Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> http://stat.ethz.ch/~maechler/
Seminar fuer Statistik, ETH-Zentrum LEO C16 Leonhardstr. 27
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