Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/08/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As someone who posts a lot of images every week, some with Leica equipment, some with Fuji/Panasonic/Ricoh, I will chime in here. I am on a couple of cycling related lists which do allow inline photos. But there it makes sense because they are used mostly in posts where the poster has some mechanical problem and it helps to post a photo of the relevant part of the bicycle to get answers to one?s question. Otherwise, photos are incidental to the conversation. Here, photography IS the conversation, so I think that if the restriction were lifted, the volume and bandwidth used would explode, and although those are much less of a restriction now than in earlier times, they are still not free. And many of us either have our own websites or use one of the many available services, or the LUG Gallery which Brian has provided for our use. So I really do not see a need to embed images in posts. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> YNWA > On 25 Aug 2019, at 06:17, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote: > > >> including images in email posts (I suspect) opens tons of hassels with >> bogus files and explodes Brian?s server space > > The original reason for not allowing attachments in LUG emails was > security. It is easy to hide dangerous malware and viruses in jpeg files. > But computers are 50 times faster now than they were when this all > started, and it is now routine to screen inbound email for malicious > things. Disks are now 800 times larger at the same price, so server space > is not an issue in 2019. > > I could easily enable the transmission of jpeg and tiff and gif and png > files if there is consensus that it would be welcome. I wouldn't want to > lose Sonny over it, though. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information