I think he posted it to the list in error
On 10/9/00 at 5:24 PM Hoodoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>From: "Charles Dittell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>> Here ya go, Joe!! Not exactly "mail," but fun....
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>I don't want to start, or be part of, another altercation in this mailing
>list, but, I personally do not appreciate participants posting messages with
>file attachments. I'm not steamed about this particular incident and hope my
>comments don't get misconstrued. It is up to Joe to condone or disapprove of
>file attachments.
>
>Although, since a file attachment situation occured previously in another
>Topica list I was subscribed to, it seems that the list moderator apparently
>has no way to block file attachments from being sent to all the
>participants. The person that sent files in the other Topica list
>transmitted huge file attachments that locked up my email software for over
>10 minutes while it downloaded. Then, it had to download several more times
>because the first few times the files got corrupted in some way. It was a
>major pain and totally unnecessary for every single list member to have to
>deal with. [I hadn't used my 'eRemove' program in many months since I had no
>longer been victimized by some malcontent's continual mailboming of my
>accout, so, I didn't think to employ it to delete the offending huge
>corrupted file message from my mailserver.]
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>I would have much rather had the file attachments on this list (and future
>ones) sent directly to Joe so he can add them to his website(s) if he wishes
>and can then report to everyone on the list where they can be found.
>
>That being said, I had never used WinAmp before and when I did click on
>several of the .wav files that were just transmitted to all of us, it popped
>up and played the sound fle. I have an inkling that this was part of the way
>the files were sent, not due to WinAmp already residing on my own computer.
>Does this seem logical to anyone? If that were the case, the actual sound
>files themselves should be considerably smaller in size than the way they
>were sent to us.
>
>Bill
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