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RE: Can I send attachments to the list?

From: timj@u...
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 00:51:45 -0400
Subject: RE: Can I send attachments to the list?

James wrote
--So--he said, realizing he wouldn't make himself look any
--smarter--what's a binary? And what do they do that's so bad?

A binary is a file in machine readable form - ususally a GIF image file
of a 
program .EXE file. These are usually MUCH larger that ASCII text files
and can 
be several megabytes. The problem is the size the mail server has to
store the 
things and then send them out so it saturates the network bandwidth,
things slow 
down and people doing real work ask the sys admin guy why...?

Tim Jones

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