[Milsurplus] photos

[Bill Carns]

We run the CCA list at LISTSERVE.com. Or, I should say, we use Listserve.com to put our list on.  THEY do not allow attachments. We pay for this service to Listserve.com and we eat that cost as a service to our members and others that share our interests that pay us nothing.
Everyone should be aware that the answer is not just a simple turning on and turning off of a switch and that the people who run the lists are not being "arbitrary".

Lists are provided free usually by some organization for your convenience. But, that org pays money to have it supported somewhere, and as important, they put time and effort into managing it.

Lists take HUGE server capacity and usually involve archives for your convenience. Passing photos adds another huge orders of magnitude of required capacity (HUGE HUGE!) to the server support requirement and servers are expensive and require support and maintenance and add eventually to the costs. Those costs must be passed along to the organization (in our case the Collins Collectors Association) and we then we need to absorb that cost unless we start charging for use of the list. This is particularly true now that cameras take such high resolution photos and generate megabyte files and most users do not know how to decimate them to a lower file size effectively.

It is very true that there are several free to everyone file passing sites that you can upload files to and then just provide a link. The use of these is not difficult to set up. This subject comes up often and everyone should please understand the issues involved  and just let it rest.

And, Ralph, I do not know who supports your lists, but they must be very generous, or your org must be ready to pay more ??

Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: Milsurplus [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Ron Lawrence W4RON
Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2015 9:45 PM
To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] photos

I this day and time I don't know why attachments are allowed.
Most people have good enough antivirus software that it's not really a problem anymore. 
Just be careful what kind of attached files you click on.
I manage several email lists, AWA, CC-AWA, TCA etc and I've taken the no attachments rule off of all of them. I sure makes it a lot easier to do things when you can easily share photos on the list.

> 
> The list does not accept attachments. Sorry.
> 
> Ralph
> Milsurplus Admin
> 
>

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