On Tuesday, Apr 16 2002 at 15:20:53 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I could see if an attachment was 600KB+, but 200KB (text) is hardly anything, even >for dialup users. > > What do you consider too much text/data/
Depends of the circumstances. 200KB is about half of the monthly traffic of the list, so I think that's quite a bit for a single mail. Some of us still have expensive metered net access. The traffic is multiplied with the number of subscribers for the owner of the prak.org machine. And the main point - 95% of the mail have been superfluous in the first place, you could just have sent the relevant bits. If you really need to provide that much data, put it somewhere on the web so those who really want it can download it. I think it's already annoying if people don't trim their quotes in email. It imposes the need to filter for the relevant info on the readers. With lots of email, that adds up and wastes my time. With a mailing list, it wastes the time of everyone subscribed. Regardless of bandwidth. Or maybe I'm overly sensitive. Personal answers only, please, no need to clutter up the list more. About the connectivity problems: I've noticed problems with the prak.org listserver, too. I think they're DNS related - prak.org has only one name server listed, and I remember that I had problems getting the hostname to resolve before. In case the owner of the domain reads this email: drop me a line if you need a secondary. Hanno _______________________________________________ Avifile mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://prak.org/mailman/listinfo/avifile
