From: Emiel Kollof <emiel@kollof.nl>
Subject: Re: Correcting a typo in openbsd.org/mail.html
To: sylvain@saboua.me
Cc: tech@openbsd.org
Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2025 12:27:25 +0200

Sylvain Saboua schreef op 2025-04-06 12:17:
> https://www.openbsd.org/mail.html
> The typo is in Netiquette, “Plain text” :
> « A small number of attachment types are allowed on the mailing lists 
> to support sending patches, shar files, images and small tar or zip 
> files. »
> e is missing: shar[e] files.

"shar" is not a typo. They're out of fashion because they were basically 
shell scrips containing an uuencoded archive and prone to hiding nasty 
things in it.

Regards,
Emiel