> Most important and entirely independent of the MIME-compliancy of the message ... that is all I cared about in my response -- "... entirely independant of ..." -- now Marc did point out that the attachment wasn't readable to non-MS mail readers, and this is correct (and was the part of my response labelled as 'if I'm not mistaken'), which I was. > Another thing is that it would have been much better to upload the tarball to > some place in the WWW and simply point interested parties to its URL. Unfortunately, URI-based peer-to-peer doesn't exist in a way that allows us to share large files on an on-demand basis yet without these types of decisions being made. Hopefully they will be in the future ... For example: p2pfile://mbabcock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/shared/source01.tar.gz -- Michael T. Babcock Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/