Mail Formats
It is highly encouraged that you use NeXTMail to send your submissions to Don Yacktman as soon as they are ready. With programs such as tnextmail readily available, this is easy to do even from non-NeXT machines.
There is one major caveat, however. If you have links in your projects--or you attempt to mail a link to your source code, NeXTMail will send the link and not the actual files! This is important because typically one out of every three or four messages that are sent to Don Yacktman contains a link instead of the actual files. Even people who know about this are continuously being bit by the problem. As Ernest Prabhakar put it:
They can upload a file to the moon, but they can't make it follow a link...Unfortunately, NeXT does not consider this a bug, but rather a feature. The reason is because most large organizations cross-mount all the major filesystems. As such, NeXTMail within the organization will send links--not files--thereby keeping intra-organization mail bandwidth to a minimum. That is a good thing, but not when we start sending things over the Internet. The best thing would be a preference in Mail.app that allows you to say to not follow links for the local domain but to follow them on external domains, perhaps allowing you to set which domains links are not followed on and assuming a complete copy for all others. NeXT does have this in their bug database, so don't bother reporting it to them. Eventually something might be done about it. In the meantime, please be sure to check your outgoing mail to be sure that you actually sent the attachments you meant to send and not just links to them.
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