RE: Proposal to avoid banning for attachments in the list

2015-07-15 Thread Julian Richard Tolchard
There is a reality here that the web is really a shifting sands of information. So the idea we link to images and files we wish to refer to is probably flawed, and is not going to achieve the archive role that would be desirable, simply because those links will be broken or lost in a few months

Re: Proposal to avoid banning for attachments in the list

2015-07-15 Thread Alan Hewat
Dear Fabrizio. 1) I would be happy if you or other members created such a dropbox to allow people to post images, linking to them in their Rietveld posts. The main problem with images is simply that they are not archived on http://www.mail-archive.com/rietveld_l@ill.fr/ so are not available for

Proposal to avoid banning for attachments in the list

2015-07-15 Thread Fabrizio Guzzetta
I have seen, in the past, that the argument of attachments in the mails/reply is always under debate and I understand both parties, the one that is pro-attachments because we are visual in the senwe that an image can explain better than tons of words sometimes or for particularly difficult