[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> This of course is a can of worms I wish I hadn't opened at this point.
> I'm not sure of the value of sending tarballs, capture files, etc to a
> list.

Where else should somebody send, say, a patch for Ethereal?  (I sure
don't want every single patch to be sent to me....)

> I for one don't want to receive unsolicited attachments on a list.

I don't see the difference between an attachment and a mail message,
other than size - and if people "work around" a ban on attachments by
uuencoding the file and including it in the body of the message, even
that difference goes away; they are, in effect, sending an attachment,
only in a form that's more of a pain to extract.