> > Strikes me that one of the central problems with attachments, after > > sheer size, is inconsistency: most of them show up in archives as > > screenfuls of gibberish. I encourage people to put them on websites > > and post the url to the list (and I'll consider putting them on a Web > > site if they don't have access to one). > > MIME attachments show up in the LISTSERV web archives just fine -- as > links that the user can click on do download the file. Uuencoded > attachments do show up in their raw form. Sorry to respond to my own message, but some mail systems will automatically decode a uuencoded file in a received message. Thus it would be helpful if the LISTSERV web interface had the ability to send you a copy of an archived message. There are other circumstances in which this would be useful too.