Well, it wont get THAT large. Maybe 200K.  But, I see your point. I
don't have have a place to host the file right now.  I'd like to send
it compressed since it is plain text.  I was even thinking of sending
an xls file summary, but that would be larger.

Does anyone know if I compress it into another file using ZLib gzip
format, how to send it?   Actually, any binary file.  The examples all
show File.read and will that work with binary files.  I would think
not.

I'll look into hosting the 2 files instead.  But, it would be nice to
see an example of sending something other than an image file.

GregD

On Oct 16, 1:38 pm, Marnen Laibow-Koser <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-
s.net> wrote:
> Greg Ditrick wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > The attachment is
> > supporting data or db that I used to create the email.  It is actually
> > a YAML flat file DB.  It is quite long and will grow each week up to a
> > point.  Most everyone I'm emailing will not care to see the data
> > within their email, but a few of my fellow "geeks" will, so a file
> > would be best.
>
> How big will this thing grow?  If most recipients don't want to see it,
> why are you wasting their disk space with it?  If I were one of your
> recipients and you were sending me weekly messages with big attachments,
> I think I'd be pretty upset.  I'd suggest that it would be better to
> provide a URL where the full data file can be downloaded by those who
> are interested.
>
> Best,
> --
> Marnen Laibow-Koserhttp://www.marnen.org
> [email protected]
> --
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