Date: Sat, 2 Sep 1995 14:16:32 -0400

From: ALICE FABER faber[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]HASKINS.YALE.EDU

Subject: uuencoded files, etc.



With regard to the whole uuencoding fiasco, a few comments. My problem with

the message was not its being uuencoded (if someone sends me something in a

format I can't read, I won't read it; if they want me to read it, they'll send

it in a format I *can* read, like good old text!), but its length. I get ADS-L

in digest form, to keep my mailbox from being cluttered up with 20-30 messages

a day. When the second message in the digest is 20-30 screens long and

gibberish, there is a very strong likelihood that I'm not going to hit return

that many times but instead will trash the whole digest. If I'd done that this

time, I would have missed a lot of interesting stuff. For this reason, I very

much appreciate Allan Metcalf's offer to created a mailing list for the NEH

messages; they're important, but I often don't have time to deal with them,

and they decrease the likelihood that I'll see the rest of what's in the ADS-L

digest for that day.



Alice Faber

faber[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]haskins.yale.edu