I looked at the attachment that was sent, in fact I got two copies of
the email with the huge attachment. I opened the PDF and was not too
sure what it was about, there was only 1 reference to metric that I
could see, which was on page 15, where it gives the size of floor space
in square feet with the equivalent square meters in brackets.
So I am still puzzled as to why post the whole document, and if there
was other text that was important, surely it would be better to just
copy and paste the relevant text rather than attach a huge PDF?
In regards to attachments, it is better to have a link to a file stored
elsewhere so that people's email boxes do not get clogged. Or else
people can get an online email provider to use with this list which
provides huge amounts of storage. I have a free Yahoo email account
which has 1 GB of storage, and a Google mail account with 2705 MB. If
anyone wants a free Google account I can send you an invitation.
David King
Buy UKMA's report "A Very British Mess" ISBN 0750310146
http://www.ukma.org.uk/Docs/pubs.htm
Avoid confusion with conversion, just learn to think metric!
http://www.thinkmetric.org.uk
James J. Wentworth wrote:
This morning I thought there was something wrong with my computer.
The e-mail program was stuck, attempting to download message 7 of 15.
Tens of minutes went by with no change.
I disconnected, then re-connected and logged into my web mail. My ISP
immediately warned me that my e-mail box was 140% over capacity, and
it was because someone had sent several messages with multi-megabyte
attachments to the USMA list!
I was so furious that I instantly deleted those messages without
opening them. I was expecting an e-mail message from a friend of mine
this morning, and it was probably bounced back because the e-mail box
was full. We need a firmly-enforced rule on this list regarding
e-mail attachment file size (if it's over X bytes, don't attach
it--post a link!). If this happens one more time, I'm going to
unsubscribe for good. -- Jason
