At 2:30 PM -0800 11/20/03, Rob Goodale wrote: >Why do we need to send them to files@ptg.org at all? Attachments or >embedded files always works for me. Because Joe Garrette complains when the embedded files spill like so much garbage across his digests. Or was it that 28kb modem of his? (Or maybe it wasn't Joe, after all.) At any rate, when the 10% of the list who responded to the impromptu survey as to whether the better equipped among us should abide with this little routine for the benefit of the poorer equipped among us, 7% said yeas and 3% said no. Speaking of people doing favors for other people, could we simply leave out the pipermail directory. I keep expecting it to work for me, but it never wants to do anything besides deny access. Seems silly to establish this routine of lodging graphics at pipermail, and have it not recognize bona fide list members, forcing us go to an off-server mirror site (tinyurl.com) to do the transaction. It's not a problem for me. I run my scans through PhotoShop's "Save for the Web", and I've never had a problem making it under the 9k limit per email. (Including that big newspaper spread I posted a few weeks back.) >Surely there must be a way to program >the silly thing to recognize items posted by subscribers is not spam. That's not the problem. It's that 96k limit. But my hat is off to Andy, Kent and the team who keep this list running so well. Bill Ballard RPT NH Chapter, P.T.G. "People sitting at computer screens slap their foreheads and pound keyboards frantically. A technical support representative wearing a telephone headset calmly asks, 'Have you tried re-formatting your hard drive?' " ...........from "The Trade Show Talk that Wasn't" by Stephen Manes, NYTimes 11/18/97 +++++++++++++++++++++
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