For those of us on digest mode, attachments never seem to work right. Peace and Prosperity, Dipesh
On 20 Oct 2013, at 3:31 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Send Bikies mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Bikies digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Bikies Digest, Vol 60, Issue 15 (Kevin Luecke) > 2. Re: admin question Re: [Fwd: NEWS RELEASE -- County Partners > with City of Fitchburg to Improve Cyclist, Motorist Safety Along > Heavily Traveled Intersections of Badger State Bike Trail] > (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Torrey?=) > 3. timelapse of Toronto's Forever Bicycles being installed > (S. Morris Rose) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 18:28:06 -0500 > From: Kevin Luecke <[email protected]> > To: [email protected], [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Bikies] Bikies Digest, Vol 60, Issue 15 > Message-ID: > <calbvf62to-sq_sjbcjktghdxxuy5pmggqh3yf5ovbwqhim3...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > I would also support allowing attachments on bikies - I was surprised that > they aren't allowed. I belong to over a dozen listservs for work and > personal business, and this is the only one that does not allow them. Also, > 200kb is too big for an email? I searched my messages, and over 80% of > those I received in the last week were larger than that. > > Kevin Luecke > [email protected] > Sent from my phone - please excuse any typos! > >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: [email protected] > >> >> More to the point, it is not typical for a listserv >> to allow attachments to be sent to a list, and I was surprised to receive >> a message that had them. Size aside, which some people may dismiss >> as a concern these days, indiscriminate use of file attachments is not >> safe computing, which is why most listservs are set not to allow them >> because of the potential for malicious files (intentional or >> otherwise). It's not that the attachments were off-topic, just that >> they were inappropriate for a mass email list. > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.danenet.org/private.cgi/bikies-danenet.org/attachments/20131019/dd58082d/attachment.html> > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 19:57:21 -0500 > From: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Torrey?=" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected], "" <[email protected]> > Cc: "" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Bikies] admin question Re: [Fwd: NEWS RELEASE -- County > Partners with City of Fitchburg to Improve Cyclist, Motorist Safety > Along Heavily Traveled Intersections of Badger State Bike Trail] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > I agree. Text e-mail (not HTML), with links (full URLs starting with http) to > relevant documents on the web is the most efficient way to go. This is the > Internet equivalent of fuel efficient cars. Or better yet, the bicycle. > > Torrey > >> -------Original Message------- >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> Cc: [email protected] >> Subject: [Bikies] admin question Re: [Fwd: NEWS RELEASE -- County Partners >> with City of Fitchburg to Improve Cyclist, Motorist Safety Along Heavily >> Traveled Intersections of Badger State Bike Trail] >> Sent: 18 Oct '13 23:13 >> >> >> >> I suppose this is mostly a question for the list admin, but relevant to >> all list members because unless your particular email client blocked it, >> we all got it whether we consented or not. >> >> I was surprised to >> find a message on bikies today in excess of 200kb.? After all, the >> typical normal email message is 5-10kb, maybe an extremely verbose one >> might be 20kb, so for someone to send a single message the size of 20-40 >> normal messages to a non-commercial mass mailing list is somewhat beyond >> the norm. >> >> More to the point, it is not typical for a listserv >> to allow attachments to be sent to a list, and I was surprised to receive >> a message that had them.? Size aside, which some people may dismiss >> as a concern these days, indiscriminate use of file attachments is not >> safe computing, which is why most listservs are set not to allow them >> because of the potential for malicious files (intentional or >> otherwise).? It's not that the attachments were off-topic, just that >> they were inappropriate for a mass email list. >> >> /rant on >> >> Although a cranky Vancouverite on the list may disagree and send >> me a nasty message in response, I am among those old-school folks who >> believe that proper email etiquette and respect to members' inboxes still >> means something :-)?? That aside, neither attachment was even >> necessary.? One of them simply duplicated the press release language >> that was already in the text of the message (!!!), and the other one was a >> document that the press release said was available on the City of >> Fitchburg website, and presumably obtained from there.? Just provide >> the URL and leave it to recipients to decide whether they want to view or >> download a copy. >> >> In any event, I was surprised to find that >> attachments would even work on bikies, and hope that someone will consider >> disabling the "feature." >> >> /rant off >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bikies mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org >> > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 07:11:23 -0700 > From: "S. Morris Rose" <[email protected]> > To: Bikies <[email protected]> > Subject: [Bikies] timelapse of Toronto's Forever Bicycles being > installed > Message-ID: > <ca+7tjwvsespiud2izjjkplzrftr3ndjrmwwsjbr_qhpg+w+...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > http://vimeo.com/76673177 > > -- > Scott M. 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