On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 16:21 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Manfred A. Reiter <ma.rei...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > 2011/8/31 Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org>: > >> Something else to think about for the ooo-users list: file attachments. > >> > > > > The experience with the german OOo-users list have shown > > that attachments should be banned. Today it is not an art piece > > to save a file in net and refer to a link to it. > > > > Did you give the users some sort of automated error message if they > tried to add an attachment?
No, there was no automated message. > > That is the part that concerns me, that we silently strip the > attachments. This will just lead to increased noise: You don't need to use conjecture here - there are real examples - it doesn't usually go quite that way, again IIRC. One example of a support ML that accepts attachments is GIMP. They limit (not sure if it is enforced in code or just their rules) attachments to 10KB - they also strongly discourage adding any attachment. As for numbers from a non-ML but same subject: [sorry some of these numbers are from past times, but a quick look just now and I think they should be in line still] current: The en forums has 10,235 attachments from 193,615 total posts. The average size of an attachment is: 48.7 KB [some of my old numbers have this at 36.4] [old numbers - I no longer have enough access rights to pull these any longer] MS format files: ~8% ODF format files: ~48% Compressed [zip, 7z, etc] ~1% The rest are different image formats [jpg, png, tiff] Anyway - I hope that helps somehow. //drew
