[pbs] Attachments
Mary Sue Ittner
msittner at mcn.org
Thu Oct 19 11:09:14 EDT 2006
Hi all,
I'd like to repeat Susan's message to everyone. From the very beginning we
have not allowed attachments on our list. We expected that not everyone in
our group was going to be interested in everything that was discussed and
not everyone would want to receive attachments as some people would have
slow connections or limited storage. We also wanted to make it less likely
for anyone to get a virus from our list. In order for people to be able to
share their pictures if they didn't have a web site, we set up the wiki as
a place you can upload pictures. We think this has worked out very well for
us as what started out as a place you could add pictures where people who
might be interested in them could look at them when you talk about them,
has become a superb reference where anyone can easily find images plus
information about those images at a later date.
As it turns out our list does get viruses and in fact we get a lot of them.
They seem to be mostly from non members of the list so they only come to
Susan, Arnold, and me. They have Macs and I have several levels of
protection. I am grateful that they do go to everyone. When you send an
attachment to the list, it comes to Arnold, Susan and me for approval since
the message is too big. This means we get those attachments and have to
deal with them. We would like to request that if you want to share your
images with the group that you add them to the wiki. There are complete
instructions about how to do this on the Upload File page.
http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/UploadFile
It is true that it takes a little time to learn how to do this if you are
not computer savy, but there are a number of us who are willing to help.
All of us who work on the wiki have very busy lives too so each person who
takes the time to follow the directions and add their pictures makes us
very happy!!
Mary Sue
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