On 30 Jul 2007 at 15:13, John Howell wrote:
> At 2:40 PM +0200 7/30/07, shirling & neueweise wrote:
> >am i correct in thinking the vocal lines should not be op^timized out
> >of piano solo passsages?
>
> I often do, to save pages. (The example I tried to send as an email
> attachment was apparently denied because the pdf was too large.) A
> commercially published octavo generally would not.
It might not have been rejected because of size, but because of spam
filters -- in the last two months, PDF attachments have become a
major feature of spam/email Trojans, somewhat replacing the attached
GIF spam (though not completely).
For some reason, my spam has dropped vastly in the last few months.
When I went to train my SpamAssassain filters last week, I had half
as much spam as ham ("ham" is the good email that you use to tell SA
what the mail you want to receive looks like -- I use my deleted mail
folder for that purpose), when in the past it's been the other way
around (twice as much spam as ham). That means my incoming spam is
close to 25% what it once was. I just found a MAILTO on one of my web
pages the other day that still had my old email address encoded in it
(though URL-encoded, I don't think many of the spam email address
harvestors are fooled by that any more), and I just removed it. Maybe
I'll see even further reduction in spam!
If that happens, it also means that it's possible over time to
cleanse compromised email addresses, as long as you completely remove
all clear-text or URL-encoded references to them. Sadly, I can never
do that, as there are still Usenet posts in Google Groups' archives
that include my old addresses in plain text (addresses that date back
to 1996, when spam was a very minor problem compared to today).
Back to your problem: I would zip up PDFs these days, or just put
them on my website and send a URL.
--
David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com
David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/
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