Re: [PATCH]-Fixes for ipfilter.
[email protected] (Greg A. Woods)
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sun3 |
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| Organization | Planix, Inc.; Toronto, Ontario; Canada |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
[ On Saturday, October 19, 2002 at 18:56:40 (-0400), J.Scott Kasten wrote: ] > Subject: [PATCH]-Fixes for ipfilter. > > It's only > 1K so I hope no-one screams too loud that I sent a patch to the list. I'm glad you sent it to the list, BUT: Just FYI because of the MIME base-64 encoding it blew up to 2,242 bytes with mail headers and your short note. It's rarely, if ever, necessary to post these kinds of things as MIME-attached compressed tar files. As a "shar" file it would only have been 2,377 bytes and would then have been readable from even the most trivial text-based mail reader, so the whole message would only have been about 3,100 bytes or so, and not much more even if you'd still used MIME to attach the text shar file, or if you'd used MIME to individually attach the three text files as plain text. I think the extra 600-1000 bytes would have been well worth it so that your patch would have been directly readable and usable from any mail reader. -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 218-0098; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Planix, Inc. <[email protected]>; VE3TCP; Secrets of the Weird <[email protected]>