Date:         Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:20:39 -0800
Reply-To:     Jim Arnott <jr.arnott@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Jim Arnott <jr.arnott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      ADMINISTRIVIA - The List and Attachments
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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?