Part of the need for this is the bug report system doesn't allow attachments, which I have sometimes sorely missed. Of course, it isnt the only usecase. <blockquote type="cite">On Jun 29, 2010 1:05 PM, "Robby Findler" <<a href="mailto:robby@eecs.northwestern.edu">robby@eecs.northwestern.edu</a>> wrote: Some kind of compression could help, but at the moment the format is designed so that if someone were to copy and paste the contents of a file into an email window and send it to us, we could still use it (wierd linebreaks and all) and even if it gets truncated there is some hope of recovering some of the content of the file. There probably is a way to do better, but these properties have proven useful in the past. Robby On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Guillaume Marceau <<a href="mailto:gmarceau@gmail.com">gmarceau@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 26, 2...</blockquote>