"Pete" == Pete Resnick <presnick(_at_)qualcomm(_dot_)com> writes:
Pete> (*mumble*) Folks, let's please not try to engineer around user
Pete> silliness. User silliness will occur no matter what tools we
Pete> provide.
Pete> Anybody can get a place on Dropbox or elsewhere and put a URL
Pete> to their stuff into an email message. The problem is not that
Pete> the tool isn't there. The problem is that people don't use
Pete> it. They attach dumb things instead of pointing to them. Or
Pete> worse they paste them inline, making it even harder for people
Pete> who use tools that can avoid attachments from having to deal
Pete> with them. What we need is better decisions and a bit more
Pete> considerateness by senders of email, not more things to let
Pete> them continue being dumb.
+1000.
If they can't figure out to produce a URL, then *I* say, they aren't
tall enough to post to an IETF mailing list.
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