Re: Pictures !!

[Harmon Seaver <hseaver@cybershamanix.com>]

     Yes, but that was last one was actually 480KB. Or so says my 
browser. And I think there have been numerous requests on both stoves 
and gas-l to have the list owner simply block all attachments. It would 
be a very simple thing to do, and likewise a very simple thing to create 
a place on the website to send the pictures to instead. Frankly, I have 
a hard time understanding why, especially given the international often 
3rd world nature of this list, attachments are allowed at all.
    And although I have a dsl line here, I have myself experienced 
sitting in a hotel room trying to get my email over a long distance 
telephone line, and totally being unable to download *any* of my mail 
because someone sent a picture to a list I was on. It simply is a bad 
idea. That's what websites are for.


Scott Willing wrote:

> Steve,
> 
> List members who posted the pictures took care to make them 
> relatively small and invited comment specifically as to whether the 
> size was a problem. They are clearly sensitive to the bandwidth 
> issue.
> 
> My connection is very slow by North American standards (28.8k at 
> best) and the pictures weren't a problem for me. But I know what it 
> is like when someone casually attaches a Word document of 500kB 
> or more (!!) without a second thought.
> 
> Sorry to hear that the pictures were a stress for you to receive. I'm 
> afraid the only reasonable solution is to post pictures on a website 
> somewhere and provide links, so that viewing is optional.
> 
> -Scott Willing
> 
> 
> Date sent:      	Fri, 22 Feb 2002 09:18:58 +1100
> To:             	stoves@crest.org
> From:           	"ATprojects Inc." <atprojects@global.net.pg>
> Subject:        	Pictures !!
> 
> 
>>I live and work in Papua New Guinea where telephone connections are bad and
>>speeds are slow, over the past few weeks members have been posting pictures
>>as well as text .... maybe in the developed world this is useful but here
>>in PNG it takes "hours" to down load these pictures !!
>>
>>May be we could have a system where members could request pictures?
>>
>>I do not want to leave the list as its useful to our work here, but the
>>current system is not working for us ..... what do other people in the
>>developing world think?
>>
>>Regards
>>
>>Steve Layton
>>
> 
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