[NCARC] Very Tall Radio Tower Available

[Bob Proulx]

Richard Huebner wrote:
> Tim Annable wrote:
> > Man I wish we could receive pictures through the reflector, that would be
> > awesome.  Unfortunately its still set up for no attachments just in case
> > there is still someone out there on a dial up modem connecting to get their
> > mail.  Pictures are 'way to large' to be sent via email.  I think this
> > policy was set the same year that Bill Gates said "640k is all the memory
> > anyone will ever need on a computer"

These days the limiter is more often the person who pays metered
bandwidth over their cell phone data plan.  Large attachments very
quickly blow up typical prepaid data plans.  But even with a fast
connection I would rather not receive large attachments directly in
email.

> Keep it under 200K and you are good. That used to be a big picture.

A good and reasonable setting.

Even better would be to post images to one of the many public picture
sites and then simply include the URL to it.  You could send the same
link to many recipients that way.  Anyone who wants to look at the
image can easily click on it while sparing the rest the data charges.

Sending a URL is the friendly way to do it.  I might know someone who
is interested and would like to forward the message to them.  I would
much rather forward the message with the URL than to re-send the one
with the large attachments.

Speaking as someone who helps maintain other mailing lists I will also
say that sending large attachments to mailing lists with many members
can be a large multiplier on bandwidth usage at the upstream end.
Every subscriber multiplies the upstream bandwidth usage.  It adds up
pretty quickly there too and makes it expensive to operate them.

Bob

P.S. I know I didn't CC the original sender who isn't a member of the
mailing list.  This is just a comment for the mailing list members.