[Milsurplus] photos

[W2HX]

I think prohibiting pictures is a bit of an anachronism. A throwback to a time when bandwidth and disk space were not trivial as they are today. There are many list servers that allow all of this. Even QTH, run and supported (hopefully) by hams allows pictures inline or as attachments, depending on what switches you throw in the list set up.  

Listserve.com is a REAL anachronism (since 1995)! They were probably one of the very very first ISPs and probably had a room full of modems for people to connect to using SLIP and later PPP (do you remember those dark times!?). I have no idea how they can still be surviving selling what others have been giving away for many years. More power to 'em!

Lots of mailing lists are now supporting this and those that don’t run the risk of becoming outmoded at some point in time. I think Darwin was the first to figure that out.  The horse-and-buggy companies were very upset when the automobile came around.

73 Eugene W2HX
 


-----Original Message-----
From: Milsurplus [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Bill Carns
Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2015 5:58 AM
To: w4ron at carolina.rr.com; milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] photos

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".
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