-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 30 September 2004 11:29 am, s. keeling wrote: > Ah. Point taken. I was thinking of a small config file. Anyone > thinking of posting anything bigger should reconsider. There's always > someone out there who wouldn't mind putting it up on a server for you > somewhere.
A config file would most likely be a text file that I already mentioned wouldn't be a huge problem. Plain text files (most config files under Linux) are quite small. I don't see a point in mentioning a file size cap and that gives people the idea that it is okay to send attachments. In certain situations people may end up forwarding a message to clug-talk and in some MUA's that is done as an attachment but unless that forwarded email had it's own attachment it should be fairly small. An email after all should just be simple text. (I hear the flames now) This point was meant to discourage people trying to send binaries and overly large files that would rack up our throughput on our hosting server, otherwise tie up disk space as Aaron mentioned and just plain annoy the hell out of people in general. Like I said and you repeated, you could send a link to a file on a server (sorry left off the server part, figured that was understood). Unfortunately this translates to asking people just not to send attachments... period. Config files can be copied and pasted inline to your email so there should be no need to attach it. Same goes for any email you might wish to forward. I apologize if the tone of my emails is coming off as angry, I'm not really angry but I do find explaining minutae tedious at times. The concensus appears to be getting a page up on the website explaining these guidelines so that we don't have to keep prattling on about this. It will be done when we can get to it. Curtis you expanded on things I said beautifully, thank-you! - -- Jarrod Major GPG Fingerprint: FA4A 1EA3 A0EE A842 07BB 804C 0090 14F6 BE6E DE3D CLUG President Registered Linux User: #224211 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBQVxFLACQFPa+bt49AQJ5wwP9EMXUhIyRPo3gB8d4AQItZh9siN8gsMaB bQymWAha8rUXscz5BnU1cm2nCSd+hzR2L/rPh1Rd+feYfhaLlGWL37y9Z4e93Z61 vRXGBRk5e4SEuHRQbZBj96Cpi0Sx2ten4GzModP7uvdO8gg1NjSLLwOhaGAuZAF7 ZSFWfbWYadM= =3Lib -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
