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Re: Attachments

From: Zvi Har'El <rl~at~math.technion.ac.il>
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 23:24:10 +0300 (IDT)
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>

On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Tim Unwin wrote:

> Am I alone in finding that large attachments on postings have recently
> become something of a problem on this otherwise excellent list?
>
> For those who are billed per second online, or for those who are
> simply in a hurry, it seems something of an unnecessary luxury to be
> receiving
> documents that may take several minutes to download, especially if it turns
> out that they don't require them anyway. Wouldn't it be better netiquette --
> and less wasteful of people's time and patience -- to put out a message
> first asking if anyone wants to receive a particular file, then to send
> it simply to those who request it?
>
> Tim Unwin.
>
Dear Tim, dear members,

I certainly in favor of your suggestion. This is perhaps my fault, as I didn't
wish to ``censor'' the Forum correspondence. However, every message which is
longer then 40,000 characters is bounced to me by Majordomo, the list server,
and I have to approve its transmission to the members. It happened twice in the
last two days that much longer messages, in the order of magnitude of 250,000
characters, arrived, and I approved them, reluctantly, I have to admit. In the
future I suggest that people don't send files to the forum, unless they are of
a moderate size, and that they just offer in their message to send the files to
those who request them. If I get messages of exceeding length, I'll edit them
by removing the attachment and adding a remark that an attachment was removed,
and people who wish to get this attachment are asked to contact the sender.
I hope that this arrangement is satisfactory. If you think I am wrong in this
decision, please let me know. On one hand, I want the correspondence in the
Forum to be completely free, but on the other hand, I don't want to hurt people
by sending huge mail messages. BTW, in my web page there is a special
depository, www.math.technion.ac.il/~rl/JulesVerne/forum/private/, which is
intended to deposit such files, and if needed, you can upload files to
ftp://www.math.technion.ac.il/pub/rl/ or send them to me as an attachment and I
can deposit them for you in that place so you can just announce their existence
to the forum without the need to mail them everywhere.

Best wishes,

Zvi.

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