Hi, Tom, I too am still in CA (funny, I didn't see you on the street last night!) With restricted access. Unfortunately, your 301 kByte PDF confounded Mr. Blackberry. It got stuck in his windpipe and blocked 68 othetr messages (not to worry, they were all spam). My point is, we should be careful with large email attachments. Rather than posting them to multiple lists, anything other than brief ASCII text should probably be posted to a website somewhere, and only the URL forwarded around. That way, we can download the files at will, when back home connected to the Real World. Mr. Blackberry thanks you for your consideration. 73, Paul
Dr. H. Paul Shuch wrote:
My point is, we should be careful with large email attachments. Rather than posting them to multiple lists, anything other than brief ASCII text should probably be posted to a website somewhere, and only the URL forwarded around.
Hear hear!
Not only does this avoid choking low-speed email clients, but it means you automatically get the latest version of the document if it is updated after it is announced but before you get around to reading it. If you send the document in email and then update it, you have to waste that bandwidth all over again.
Phil
And that is exactly what EaglePedia should be used for! Not to mention that a permanent record doesn't depend on everyone not emptying their email client at some point...
73,
Emily
At 03:48 PM 11/1/2006, Phil Karn wrote:
Dr. H. Paul Shuch wrote:
My point is, we should be careful with large email attachments. Rather than posting them to multiple lists, anything other than brief ASCII text should probably be posted to a website somewhere, and only the URL forwarded around.
Hear hear!
Not only does this avoid choking low-speed email clients, but it means you automatically get the latest version of the document if it is updated after it is announced but before you get around to reading it. If you send the document in email and then update it, you have to waste that bandwidth all over again.
Phil
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