On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Keith wrote: > While I am not in disagreement with you concern about attachments to > e-mails, a alternative approach might have been to suggest that future > e-mails either be individual or, as you suggested, posted to an ftp site > for selective download. I appreciate your frustration, but you came across > a little harsh. Just a thought. Thanks.
I have made polite suggestions in the past, obviously to no avail. But perhaps some users miss the point. Besides the fact that X-zillion bytes of data were sent to dozens (hundreds?) of people who, perhaps, had no specific interest in them, many people pay their email providers by the hour. To download this last blast of data could take some members of this list literally hours. It ties up their machines, costs them several dollars, and for what? Some members use sophisticated mail system which display the images, but some don't. Some, like me, get screens and screens of junk. In my case, I am running a Sparcstation under Solaris connected to a T1 line and the messages come in in seconds; but I receive the digest version of this list and if I want to read the messages in the digest, I have to page and page and page and page through the junk to find the messages. Please people. Just a little common sense. Michael. Alon Aircoupes CF-DBF, CF-VCH, CF-WDZ, CF-XVI -----------------------------------------------+------------------------ Michael Gillespie | Voice/Fax 204.943.9000 President, The Gray Research Group | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Flying Colors Precision Flight Team | [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- No good deed will go unpunished. ---- Standard Disclaimers Apply ---
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