Re: sending attachments

On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:52:59PM +0100, Urs Jan?en wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 03:25:40PM -0600, Philip McClure wrote:
> > I've been doing searches for a couple of weeks but I'm unable to find a
> > way to send attachments with my posts. 
> 
> there is no (easy) way to send mime-attchemts with tin (it's on the
> TODO-list, but as usenet isn't design to transport binary data this
> has _very_ low priority).
> 
> what you could to is include uuencoded data in your article, or -
> that's the hard way - prepare the mime-attchemts by hand and set
> 	post_mime_encoding=8bit
> 	post_8bit_header=ON
> in tinrc that it does not overwrite the mime-headers which you have
> to specify by hand. (this is for mime-experts only - kids, don't try
> this at home!).
> 
> If I had to post binary data I would do it with uuencode and include
> the resulting file in the article.

So, theoretically I could insert uuencoded files with vim, inline, while 
editing the message.  Assuming, of course, I had already specified the
mime header bits in my .tinrc.

Would this work?
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