[Microwave] For Sale: OE5JFL EME Controller System

[Steve Harrison]

On 5/17/2024 12:37 PM, Facility 406 wrote:
>> Hopefully, all of the attached photos come thru.  If not, please
>> email me &
>> I'll send them to you.
>
> None did.
>
> Attachments are an option for qth.net, have been since the beginning,
> up to about 20MB per message depending on the posters email provider
> limitation, but old-school moderators generally don't turn that option
> on, adhering to the old CW mentality of running a forum, which by the
> dial-up BBS days, had evolved lightyears beyond that.
>
> Hopefully, you get some bites.
>
> You may also want to try groups.io forums, by default attachments are
> allowed, as the service provider realizes a single photo can eliminate
> almost all conversation, by getting right to the point: Picture, price.
>
> Kurt

QTH.net has NEVER allowed attachments, or html text within posts, for
one simple reason: that remains one of the easiest and most-common
methods by which malwear spreaders are able to inadvertently infect
e-mail readers; it has nothing whatsoever to do with any "old-school"
mentality. Those who use e-mail reader programs such as uShaft's
Outhouse, the later Eudora 7.x offerings, and many others, which had or
have the capability of providing automagic previews of e-mail containing
html or certain types of attachments, when the option to display such
was enabled, were, and still are, among the most-often and
severely-affected e-mail readers. QTH.net (and contesting.com, for that
matter), in comparision, remains among the very few safe e-mailers which
cannot pass on such malwear since they do not allow attachments or html
within their posts, but only plain text. Your sarcastic dig at "old CW
mentality" above is badly misplaced and shows a complete
misunderstanding of the issues and dangers of automatically-executing
html e-mail and/or attachments, which remain as important and critical
today as ever (if not more-so).

73,

Steve K0XP