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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