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To: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com>
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Subject: Re: query-pr. please! 
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Date: Sat, 18 Feb 1995 07:34:54 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
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> > But what about attachments?
> 
> make a uuencoded tarball and stick it in one of the unformatted
> text fields.

My point is that this should NOT BE A NECESSARY STEP FOR THE USER.  I
want something that wraps around the whole thing and makes it
something the user does on a file by file basis with NO underlying
knowlege about how we decide we want it packaged that week.  The
submission mechanism I'd envisioned was a heck of a lot more
high-level than that!  You just hand it all the pieces and it goes off
and does whatever's necessary.  This should be the developer's mantra.
"Have I made it any simpler to use today?"  When they truly reach the
stage where they can say "No" then they'll be enlightened buddas and
FreeBSD will be like a zen tea garden - perfection enshrined! :-)

					Jordan