I too agree that we should be able to make the best use available technology. However, I'm a little disturbed by the term "lowest common denominator" that keeps cropping up. The lowest common denominator happens to be everyone that is subscribed to this list. In the current format, mails sent to the list can be read by everyone and so you have the maximum potential for responses. As you assend further up the technological ladder, more subsctribers are eliminated from the potential audience. I'm glad to see that people are proposing file size limits and file formats to maximize compatibility and minimize download time. These are sensible precautions but we should remember that the reason we all use this list is to share information with all the other list members, reducing your audience reduces the variety of responses received and it's possible the situation will arise where someone says "Hey, I think I can answer that question but I can't open the darned mail". From my own experience, there are few more disheartening and time consuming exercises than sending a mail and then having to resend it in every format under the sun until the recipient can read it. Also I'm guessing that some subscribers are limited in their choice of software due to corporate policy / financial constraints.
So, in closing, I agree with using the best tools to help us do our jobs but let's not loose sight of the reason we are using those tools Just my 2 yen worth Martin Ginty Liason Engineer, Mitsubishi Electric, Nagoya Works, Japan The opinions expressed above are mine alone
