"Large" posts

John> Would anyone like to look at sniff.el to see if anything John> jumps out about it? It's over 600 lines long, so I hate to John> just post the thing... Is this kind of reticence necessary on this list? I basically "live in the sewer of the Japanese Internet" so I don't much notice how much s2t floats by. If it's not necessary, I'd rather have the stuff accessible in case I want to look.... But if bandwidth is something that worries anybody, how about creating an "xemacs-beta-large" where kyle can post multimedia editorial comments and Ben can _literally_ talk us through our problems, and people with something "large" like a 600 line lisp file or a 1000 line inflooping backtrace can post it? This would serve the needs of people with limited bandwidth, or only intermittent access to broadband connections. If the size limit on -beta itself were controlled by a script, it could strip all MIME attachments and post only say 50[1] lines to the -beta list, and add a -large message ID (for people subscribed to -large) and archive URL for web browsers in the headers, say. No reason to have a separate archive or even a writable xemacs-beta-large address, in fact. Footnotes: [1] I don't see why a fairly draconian limit would be inappropriate. w3.el or browse-url.el would provide reasonably convenient access. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."