[NCARC] Very Tall Radio Tower Available

[Tim Annable]

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On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Bob Proulx <bob at proulx.com> wrote:

> 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.
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