On Sat 18 Sep 1999 (10:04:30 +0100), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Here we go again! > > Not all of the members of this list live in places where the telephone > charges are as inexpensive or free as they are in Toronto. Nor do we > work in places which provide us with free technology and internet > access. > > Now I have two graphics files dumped in my mail box of exactly the same > material, one in .pdf format and another in .jpg format. I want > neither. It took seven and a half minutes to download these files from > my ISP server. That means that I have to pay dearly for somebody elses > thoughtlessness.
I heartily agree with this view - large 'binary attachments' should NOT be sent to this Mailing List without any warning, although they can either be privately E-mailed to persons who request them, or a Web-site 'URL' given. On this occasion, the problem was compounded by having the graphics in TWO large files (5-page PDF, and a full-colour JPEG). As the content was only diagrammatic, an 8-colour GIF version would have been more than sufficient and should have dramatically reduced the file-size, plus downloading time. ************************************************************************** Is it in any way possible for the 'Majordomo' to put an upper LIMIT on the size of individual messages being sent to the Mailing List (say 5 Kb) - so that any E-mails larger than this will be (politely) "returned to sender", with an automatic request to summarise the content of their large message? ************************************************************************** By the way - I always thought Toronto was 80 degrees WEST (and not East!), or is this (Russian/Chinese border) where Mr Chunpongtong originated? ;-)) Douglas Hunt. -- "MODERN SUNCLOCKS" - 'Human Sundials', using YOUR OWN SHADOW to tell time. Looking for a useful self-funding Millennium-marker ? - you've found one ! For details, see Web-site at http://www.argonet.co.uk/education/sunclocks/ Mail Address: 1 Love Street, Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland, KA13 7LQ, UK. Tel & Fax (UK): 01294-552250. International Tel & Fax: + 44 1294 552250. E-mails to: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" or "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
