My opinion is that attached images in bb posts should be allowed:
1) Storage & network bandwidth is cheap
2) Attached (even inline) images are convenient to understanding
the question/issue at hand
3) Emails are very easily deleted
4) If images are to be "attached" via web-links, then it may not be
possible to refer to them appropriately in the archives if the images
are ever removed from the hosting server. - it seems to me that the
archive of the bb is an excellent resource, but is diminished if the
content can not be maintained centrally.
-Doug
On 7/2/2010 11:04 AM, Frances C. Bernstein wrote:
Why not put images, maps, or data files on your own web page
and then send out a link to that material? Then the e-mails
are small and anyone that wants to see the files has easy
access.
Frances Bernstein
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On Fri, 2 Jul 2010, Tim Gruene wrote:
Maybe this netiquette is a little outdated. Sending a few MB to
thousands of
people is probably not much more than noise compared to current net
traffic.
There is the IMAP protocol which overcomes the problem of modem
connections,
which anyhow probably only affects a very, very small amount of
people nowadays,
and there are plenty of mail user agents which do not have a
paperclip button,
e.g. mutt, pine, etc, which address the very same problem.
It's is a lot easier to show a jpg-image a few kB in size than to
attempt to
describe what you see with words.
Anyhow, the FAQ
(http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#formats) the
CCP4 netiquette (http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/ccp4bb.php#using) refers to
explicitly
allows MIME attachments, even though I also conside MIME outdated and am
extremely glad I do not need to fiddle with uu-en/de-code anymore.
Again: maybe it's time to update the CCP4 netiquette.
Tim
P.S.: I wonder how much traffic this email will induce ;-)
On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 09:33:01AM -0400, Ed Pozharski wrote:
Several recent posts with decently sized attachments (now in cross eyed
stereo too!) prompt this (annual?) anti-paperclip-button rant. Lucky
for me, I can just recycle the old messages:
http://www.mail-archive.com/ccp4bb@jiscmail.ac.uk/msg11949.html
Cheers from the self-appointed thought police,
Ed.
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