The filters were set at ~25 kb. I don't know what happened to let the larger files through. I have often added the odd sketch or picture under 25 kb as an attachment. These contribute to the discussion. Sometimes the total message is larger and it bounces. This discipline is good. Let's keep the filters at that level as often a picture is worth a thousand words (25 kb).
Regards, Roger Bailey -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Linda Reid Sent: July 13, 2006 3:13 PM To: sundial@uni-koeln.de Subject: Re: Large Attachments In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Mike Cowham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PLEASE, no attachments on Sundial. We don't all have broadband connections. > Yesterday's 'bundle' took me nearly half an hour to download and blocked my > incoming emails for earlier in the day. > > Mike Cowham > Cambridge I can certainly understand Mike's comments, since I am also using 'Dial-up' (not Broadband) - and it took a while to down-load all the pictures, plus "avi" file, which were posted by Phil Walker. Although I would not put a 'blanket-ban' on ALL attachments, I do think that there should be some upper limit (for each individual message) - of say 10 Kbytes, which covers text plus attachments. That should allow any reasonable size GIF diagrams, and probably small 'thumbnail' JPEG photographs - as aids to the E-mail text. However, this is only workable if the system at "uni-koeln" could establish the size of a message - and 'reject' any over-size ones. I assume this is technically possible, for the E-mail 'experts'. Otherwise, could I please ask that members of this list simply include a 'link' to an appropriate website address - where any large files can be down-loaded, if a person chooses to do this. Mrs Linda Reid - (normally just a 'lurker' on this list)! -- --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
