Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]i agree, attachments are a bad idea. email is ideal for textual infromation, poor for media. the main flaw is duplication of content, which when the list is large, and the content is fat, makes for extremely poor use of bandwidth. better to send URLs for images; it's up to the discretion of the receive to see them. - -rei > From: Pascal <cyberdog@attglobal.net> > > On 26-05-2001 06:22 S Dimitrov wrote: > > > oes that mean we'll be able to start > > sending in HTML and attachments? > > This would be clogging up subscribers' email boxes and hard disks and, > moreover, not all email programs are coping well with attachments, html and > the like. Plain text is the rule, and so it should remain. We should all try > to avoid "polluting" our systems more than they already are... :-) > > Pascal > NO ARCHIVE