Probably this is a bit off topic and I do agree with you that ideally we shouldn't shouldn't be sending across huge attachments in a mailing list, but Rawat you could always setup Thunderbird to ensure that mails bigger than a predefined size are not downloaded locally to your machine and hence saving you all the trouble....
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 2:25 PM, V S Rawat <[email protected]> wrote: > I think such 9,857K files as attachment are too big to be processed > conveniently. > > There had been several huge size attachments in the list recently. > > Yesterday also, someone has sent 3 similar looking pics of a kid with > CD that were quite large sizes, about 1.5 MB per image whereas that > could have been made to a jpg of some 50 KB. > > pop3 Offline mail readers are not capable of handling such huge sizes > of attachment. I am finding that my Thunderbird gets stuck while > downloading them and that halts download of any further mail for hours > till i realize that something is amiss that no mails are coming. Then, > I have to log in to gmail account, delete the mail having huge > download - there is no way of just deleting attachment in gmail, > restart Thunderbird and then it downloads remaining mails. I loose > that particular mail in any case. Like, I couldn't see this particular > 10 MB video. > > Request members to employ some self discipline while sharing huge > files. You can always post them to any file sharing site and send the > links to the list so that interested members can download them. > > Hope moderator would also give a thought to this problem and find some > solution. > > Thanks. > -- > Rawat > > On 3/9/09, ar balaji <[email protected] <ar_balaji81%40yahoo.com>> > wrote: > > hi friends > > this the video, conveying the message that our a r rahman wins the oscar, > > this happines is reached every house in our town ranipet. > > our first step is digital banner for golden globe award > > second step for oscar award, telecasting this created video clip in our > > local cable television network (paalar sat system, ranipet) > > third step is ......... on progress > > - a karthick, r sharmendran, r senthil kumar > > -panchathan musicals, ranipet > > jai ho > > jai ho > > jai ho > > > > > > > > > > -- Regards, Vikram http://www.vikramkumar.org Send free SMS in India http://mGinger.com/index.jsp?inviteId=coolviki
