Re: attatched photos

(This is a re-submit; I sent it two days ago but it never came back
on the list.):

If attachments are sent to the list, I will have to unsubscribe. My
ancient mail program (Eudora) that I used for nearly ten years used
to download pictures less than 100Kb in a few seconds, but my brand
new mail program (the Mac Mail program that came with my G5) takes
15-20 minutes to download the smallest attachment to a mail message.
I don't know why it is, but that's how it is.

The logic of saying that if you can download a picture from a website
in your browser, you should be able to downloading an attachment in
your mail program just as easily doesn't work for me; I've never
found that to be the case, and I think the two things must work
differently. There is a good reason why there are these rules about
attachments on mailing lists (and it's true for all mailing lists
that I know of, not just this one.)
Katharine Thayer

On Sep 2, 2007, at 5:38 AM, 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?'
> ATB
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