[Rd] PDFs on R-devel ...

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "OlegS" == Sklyar, Oleg \(London\) <osklyar at maninvestments.com>
>>>>>     on Wed, 3 Sep 2008 13:47:56 +0100 writes:

[.............]

    OlegS> I attached three PDFs ..........

    OlegS> Just in case PDFs are removed by the mail server here
    OlegS> is the description of the problem:  

[..........]

and the PDFs *were* removed ... for a good reason :

Attachments are allowed if they have the correct 'MIME type'
("google" if you don't know what that is).
Your attached files had  content type  'application/octet-stream'
which basically means "unknown binary format"
i.e. the same format that any executable virus / trojan /
... would also come in.

You may need a smarter e-mail client (than Microsoft's) which
uses the correct type, or one where you can specify the MIME
type of an attachment explictly.  

Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich,
Maintainer of the @r-project.org mailing lists.