Re: attatched photos

Ellis Cory wrote:
>
> Scott wrote.....However, I see merit in keeping an e-mail
> list text only, and without html. When introduced, these
> technologies immediately exclude or burden some readers.........
>
> I am sorry to be still so thick as to not understand why other sites and
> users can use attachments, with all the problems that have been raised, but
> this site cannot. If all these problems are overcome elsewhere, nobody has
> difficulties downloading (whether on dial-up or broadband), everybody can
> appreciate pictures sent and have the choice of showing their work as
> attachments or on an external site, then I still ask the question 'why not
> here?'

I suspect that your "everybody" is not as all inclusive as you think
it is. I believe that people who don't want attachments and HTML due
to bandwidth limits, bandwidth cost, or disk quotas (something that
hasn't been mentioned much in this thread) don't go to web forums for
the same reasons.

(Personally I don't belong to any web forums because the user
interfaces are universally horrible. I do read a few occasionally
when they show up in search results.)

A mailing list is not a web forum. No one looks at a still photo and
says it should be more like a movie. Stills and movies exist as
different media. There is no reason why a (ASCII text only) mailing
list and web forums can not exist separately. They have different
features and fulfill different needs.

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