Dave, I have high bandwidth, at work, and can read the e-mail on my
lunch time, and I still like the no attachments rule.
If the system won't allow attachments, then "worms" are unable to get
into my system. I am on other lists, one of which got hit with a
certain e-mail virus recently, and even though I was aware of it my
systems anti-virus software had to 'clean-up' after an attachment
brought it in.
I have no problem with the way the things have been done.
Terry Griner
Columbus Ohio USA
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At 10:35 AM -0800 12/9/00, Charles W. Walters wrote:
>I respectively disagree. Small Scale Live Steam is a great list
and
>resource, but lacks one thing; the ability to post directly in
email
>messages. I for one like that feature. If for no other reason than
that,
>this is a good list to have as well as ssls. just my humble
opinion.
OK, so this starts me thinking ...
There are three reasons I have chosen to prevent attachments to be
sent to
the list:
*The belief that most people have a low-bandwidth connection and may
wish
to download the picture later (when rates are lower or they may just
have
more time to download large files).
*The belief that as a list member, you should have the right to
control
what large files you receive. If everyone can post to the list, then
the
poster controls what you download, not the receiver.
*Attachments really trash digests. Specifically, the "no attachments"
rule
prevents HTML-encoded e-mail from being distributed on the list and
HTML-encoded messages in a digest are horrible. A corollary to this
is that
HTML-encoded e-mail makes the archives look bad too.
Now, I am not going to take an official vote here or anything
(insert
recount joke here), but if I get a sense that the list wishes to
allow
attachments, I will reconsider that ban.
\dmc
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