On Oct 11, 2012, at 7:13 PM, Walter <walter.stanish@gmail.com> wrote:
...which has a suffix of .tab and a media type of application/octet-stream, neither of which make it very readable by many mail user agents. It's actually just plain text (with an unnecessary <pre> before it), so here it is:
Each to their own.
Unfortunately, in this case, that amounts to "to each member of the mailing list perhaps some time spent trying to open the document", which is Not A Good Thing if you want people to discuss the document, which I presume you do.
<tab> and file name were both copied from an existing file within the distribution.
I'm not sure why those files need # <pre> at the beginning, or why they have .tab as a suffix, as I don't think that's a commonly-known file suffix.