This is addressed to Malcolm primarily, but pehaps others who are in the same position could join in...
I'm very sorry to hear that you have been inconvenienced and feel you need to unsubscribe. I do understand the situation of having to pay for all connect time and transfers, and wish there was some way around the problem. I have to ask, what are you using for a mail client (reader)? What sort of mail service do you have, with your internet service provider? Can you set your mail reader to leave the messages on the server, and only download the ones you want? Normally, the mail header is displayed in the reader, with a flag indicating the presence of attachments, and the message's size. This should give you the opportunity to pick and choose which messages to read, and which to discard unopened. Do you have access in the UK to any of the free, Web-based mail services? Try subscribing through HotMail, NetAddress, or the like. With these, only the header is displayed, until you select a message to open. There is an added burden of graphics and (small) advertising banners with these, but they still may be an economical solution. Dave Bell On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Malcolm Purves wrote: > By private e-mail I recently asked the list owner if there was > a form of the list that could be subscribed to without attachments. > No reply to that effect was received so I presume not. > > However the list owner did post a reminder on the list about this > subject just a few days ago. > Nevertheless,yet again, someone else has ignored this advice and > taken it upon himself do this thing and has sent a jpg, if we like > it or not. > Yet it is so easy to place such a thing on a free web page and post > just the url, thus we would have a choice. indeed this latest poster > already has a web page ! > As I am one of those people who, as the list owner has said, have to > connect to the internet via modem, also I have to pay per second > for this facility, I have no company or institution to do this for me. > > I have previously addressed this sort of comment by e-mail to the > persons directly about this form of netiquet. > > All to no avail. > > It sadens me therfore that the only course left to me is to > unsubscribe. This is a shame since I have enjoyed the contributions > of the greater number of list members. > > It is the few who have now spoiled this for me. > > Malcolm. > > >
