Thanks Jim. In a perfect world pics would be nice but certainly not at that
expense or trouble. I think your explanation made that perfectly clear.

On Feb 17, 2008 12:48 AM, neil N <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for making the "no" attachment thing clear.
>
> A TB of pictures?
>
> No thanks!  :)
>
> Neil.
>
> On Feb 16, 2008 8:20 PM, Jim Arnott <jr.arnott@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I DO have a problem with it. For a few reasons....
> >
> > 1.) Many folks haven't learned how to manipulate their images to
> > reduce them to some reasonable size. I work for an ISP. It might
> > surprise you the number of 30 mb email messages my techs remove from
> > dial-up users' mail boxes daily.
> > 2.) Bandwidth does cost money.  We start moving folk's pictures
> > around and the costs go up proportionally.
> > 3.) Mailing list software makes no distinction between .jpg
> > and .pif,.exe, dot whatever. Attachment is attachment. Allow or don't
> > allow. Allow and take the heat when someone's compromised system
> > spreads a virus? Not my job. Allow and take the heat when said virus
> > infects gerry? No thank you.
> > 4.) Believe it or not, there are still a significant number of users
> > on dial-up. Large emails and dial-up do not play well together. (See
> > item 1 above.)
> > 5.) You think that the archives are slow now? Let's add a terabyte of
> > pictures and see what it'll do.
> >
> > So no, we will not allow attachments If you want to share your
> > pictures, get a Flickr or Picasa or Shutterfly account and share the
> > link.  Let the reader decide rather than shoving the pictures into
> > their inbox.
> >
> > Jim Arnott
> > List Admin
> > vanagon@gerry
> >
> >
> > On Feb 16, 2008, at 8:54 PM, Andrew Grebneff wrote:
> >
> > > It doesn't. Perhaps this could be changed, if there was a limit to
> > > the number posted and the poster asked first for positive responses.
> > > Jim?
> >
>
>
>
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