Subj : login trouble
To   : DAVID BOWERMAN
From : Ian Moote
Date : Thu Oct 19 2000 07:46 am

Ope -- pet peeve time! [:)


DB> LE> Doesn't matter. Policy says that any kind of "encoded" text 
DB> LE> requires the permission of the relaying sysops.
DB>
DB> Not quite right, Leonard.  Encoded text is not a problem.  Encrypted
DB> is.

If only it were that simple. Unfortunately many sysops consider 
UUEncoding to be "encrypting". You and I know better, but some people 
just refuse to be reasonable.


DB> There were several echos in which uuencoded code fragments were
DB> commonly found.

Well, public posting of UUE's doesn't seem to really be much of a 
problem even though I _have_ seen echoes where people have posted UUE's 
only to find that some people in the net can see it while other areas of 
the net can't.

My experience with bounced UUE messages has been via routed NetMail. 
Mine have gotten bounced so many times that I don't even bother with it 
anymore.


But that's okay. Fortunately there is a much more reliable and 
professionally run network which is now available to the masses which is 
more than happy to carry all the diagrams and binaries that I wish to 
send. [:) And I don't have to worry about someone arbitrarily deleting 
it on the way, I don't have to split it up to conform to some bizarre 
150-line limit, and I don't have to beg some system operator to please 
make sure that he passes the file on to his user. [:)))

Take care and TTYL.

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