Strong suggestion, Jed: don't send large files or serious graphical
data or even tables requiring much formatting by email to a mailing list.
Instead, put it on a web site, either for direct display or for file
download. And then send the link. It is much more flexible and
preserves email bandwidth and avoids certain risks. (Sending a large
mail to the many subscribers of a list can put a serious load on the
mail server.) I do not allow attached files on any of the mailing
lists I manage, because, then, a virus infection of one subscriber
can propagate as a temptation to infection by the list subscribers.
(With a few viruses, and with unpatched operating systems, direct
infection was possible, but *hopefully* most of those infection
pathways have been closed. I do know that when I've had to reinstall
an OS, particularly Windows XP or 2000, and then I connected to the
internet, my computer was infected within minutes...., I had to get a
copy of Zone Alarm, install the OS and then Zone Alarm from CD, and
then download the security updates.... but more recent versions are
more resistant to this out of the box.)
