Re: Full Steam

On Tue, 12 May 1998 20:50:50 -0400, Robert Crawford <crawford@iac.net>
wrote:

>Please don't send large binaries to the mailing list!
>Post a URL!

I'll add that there are a lot of people on this list who don't have
up-to-date
virus checkers who won't open a Word document for fear of invoking a
macro
virus. There are many others who simply can't open Word files (believe
it or
not). Finally, some of us just don't like getting large e-mail messages
without some sort of warning.

Then there are the people, probably a majority, who aren't even
interested in
this.

I realize Neil meant well. However this large message (over 800K) was
spawned
to over 300 people. That's the equivalent of the servers sending 240 MB
of
data all at once. I guess Neil didn't realize just how much of a load he
was
putitng on the server. 

For future reference, the best way to handle this is to post a short
message
to the mailing list. Ask for interested parties to e-mail you if they
want the
file. You can then find out if they can handle Word, or if text would be
better, and if you can compress the file with WinZIP, PKZIP, Stuff-It,
etc. 

Allan Goodall	     agoodall@sympatico.ca

"Once again, the half time score, 
 Alien Overlords: 142,000. Scotland: zip."
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