I was trying to be poetic, not sarcastic. Guess it didn't go over well. I'm trying to ask a serious question and am still not fully understanding. Please excuse me -- I am a graphic artist who is accustomed to sending large mega-files all over the place on a daily basis -- an essential aspect of my work -- and even my most computer-unsavvy clients in rural areas have no problems with this. I can understand why large files might be an issue for people with slower connections, but an attachment of less than 5 MB is small in my world. I like attachments, as information is often well-designed and attractive which is appealing to me as a designer. It isn't arrogance and rudeness to send attachments. It appears to be a lack of understanding that this might create problems for some people.
Are some inboxes so small that attachments fill them up so other emails are not able to arrive? If so, what type of size limitations do these smaller inboxes typically have? And you're saying it takes a bit of time for the attachments to open? Like, how long did this attachment of Tim's take to open? It's only 92KB. How long does a 5MB attachment take to open? What is unsafe about attachments? Don't all email programs have virus scanners that scan attachments before you open them? For my occupation I have needed to operate in high tech gear and fast speed since the internet took off and it's my job to be at the cutting edge of internet innovation. It has seemed to me most everyone with internet connections are now operating at much higher levels, easily handling attachments of 5 MB, even my friends in rural areas with steep hills and valleys. Of all the numerous listservs I am on, this is the only one where I have heard these complaints voiced and it is bewildering to me. I'm just trying to understand it better. Thank you India, for your kind response. Donna ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 11:46 PM Subject: Re: [Bikies] Fwd: Transportation Master Plan: Public Workshop/Visioning (December 19) To: Donna Magdalina <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] > Please explain why email attachments make the world shutter to disaster in > some people's minds. I don't get it. Is it a problem for dial-up internet > users? Are there still dial-up internet users? Shutter or shudder? Either way f--- your sarcasm and take a look at the real issue of email etiquette. You just don't do indiscriminate file transfers to mass audiences. Email attachments are perfectly appropriate when you are talking about a small number of personal recipients you know or are otherwise dealing with directly, you need to transmit a file, and they are expecting it. It is utterly rude and unacceptable to a mass mailing list and it is not safe computing. (And although it is not the primary reason, yes, there may well still be dialup users depending on what's available in a particular market and for what price. Hell, if my broadband keeps going up in price, I'll be switching back to dialup. It really just isn't worth it for my purposes.) But, yes, it is just incredibly rude. You can communicate all the information you need to a mass audience in this context with a simple plain text message of 5kb or so, even 10-20kb at the most. Why does anyone think s/he is so special or so privileged to send a huge message that his or her ONE message is the equivalent size of HUNDREDS of normal email messages and that he or she has any ethical right to impose that much on someone else's inbox quota without prior consent. For most people it is not the time to download, but rather the issue of inbox quotas. (Not everyone uses the ethically-challenged googlemail and its unlimited quota, donchaknow.) Attachments should be limited to file transfers that you know a limited number of recipients actually want to receive. Anyone who would go beyond that to making file transfer indiscriminately to hundreds of recipients is a sp @ mmer and deserves to be banned from the list for that kind of misconduct. > On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 11:09 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> > You mean we DO have attachments on Bikies? >> >> Yes, it is >> possible. But just because you CAN doesn't mean that you SHOULD >> because it is EXTREMELY poor etiquette to do so to a list of hundreds of >> recipients. Only the lowest of the worst possible lowlifes would even >> consider doing it. Just post a URL to the item. And if it's >> not already on a website, put it on some kind of personal sharing site >> and >> post the URL to that. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bikies mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org >> >
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