- From: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 14:44:48 +0100
- To: <public-swbp-wg@w3.org>
I took an action to explain methods of dealing with attachments etc in W3C lists. The following describes some policy, http://www.w3.org/2002/03/email_attachment_formats.html which in summary is plain text is best html or xhtml is second best The harder case that is not explained in full is what do you do when you have content in some proprietary format, particularly if the files are large. e.g. I had a document in a proprietary format that I wished to send to the www-rdf-interest list. Step 1) Create a PDF (if necessary this might been creating a postscript file and then converting that with ghostview) Step 2) send PDF as attachment to www-archive@w3.org This mailing list is public but no natural subscribers, and is intended for large attachments, amongst other purposes. Step 3) Find URL of attachement by looking at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/ Step 4) Send URL to the intended mailing list e.g. see http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2004Feb/0231 where I note the long URL got mangled ... Reviewing the policy I probably could have created an xhtml version with only a little more effort than the PDF and that would have been better. It is particularly important to use this technique of sending to www-archive when the attachment is large. If you wish to send something with member confidentiality to a public list the same technique can be used by sending to w3c-archive@w3.org which is archived at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-archive/ If you have a complex set of interlinked files in the same directory it is possible to send them all as attachments to www-archive and the links will be maintained. Example is: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2004Feb/att-0071/ Jeremy
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