Sending logs to the list (was: Guile is broken, again...)

[Christopher Jones]

> On 12 Feb 2016, at 2:54 am, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:
> 
> Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, 10 Feb 2016, Chris Jones wrote:
>> 
>>> Just compress the log file before posting it. It will be a fraction of 
>>> its original size then...
>> 
>> Yet another hoop through which to jump, in other words...  Should it be 
>> ZIP, Compress, or what?  Sigh, so many standards, and so little time...
> 
> A link to a pastebin is a better solution. There are plenty of them out
> there, and it's good netiquette to avoid sending attachments to an
> entire mailing list.

fair enough. I personally prefer compressed attachments, but concur the point as I might be a minority on that point. 

> 
> If you must attach the log, any of zip, gzip, bzip2 are fine, pretty
> much everyone can extract those.
> 
> - Josh
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