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Date:         Sat, 16 Feb 2008 21:48:12 -0800
Reply-To:     neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: ADMINISTRIVIA - The List and Attachments
Comments: To: Jim Arnott <jr.arnott@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To:  <A753AEF6-ACA9-4075-8840-9068F0437B6A@gmail.com>
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Thanks for making the "no" attachment thing clear.

A TB of pictures?

No thanks! :)

Neil.

On Feb 16, 2008 8:20 PM, Jim Arnott <jr.arnott@gmail.com> wrote: > I DO have a problem with it. For a few reasons.... > > 1.) Many folks haven't learned how to manipulate their images to > reduce them to some reasonable size. I work for an ISP. It might > surprise you the number of 30 mb email messages my techs remove from > dial-up users' mail boxes daily. > 2.) Bandwidth does cost money. We start moving folk's pictures > around and the costs go up proportionally. > 3.) Mailing list software makes no distinction between .jpg > and .pif,.exe, dot whatever. Attachment is attachment. Allow or don't > allow. Allow and take the heat when someone's compromised system > spreads a virus? Not my job. Allow and take the heat when said virus > infects gerry? No thank you. > 4.) Believe it or not, there are still a significant number of users > on dial-up. Large emails and dial-up do not play well together. (See > item 1 above.) > 5.) You think that the archives are slow now? Let's add a terabyte of > pictures and see what it'll do. > > So no, we will not allow attachments If you want to share your > pictures, get a Flickr or Picasa or Shutterfly account and share the > link. Let the reader decide rather than shoving the pictures into > their inbox. > > Jim Arnott > List Admin > vanagon@gerry > > > On Feb 16, 2008, at 8:54 PM, Andrew Grebneff wrote: > > > It doesn't. Perhaps this could be changed, if there was a limit to > > the number posted and the poster asked first for positive responses. > > Jim? >

-- Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia - "Jaco"

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