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  • From: "Mark Angermayer" <hangermayer@isp.com>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Time for list message footer update...filtering files
  • Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 12:19:04 -0600

I don't post very often anymore, but I do read posts regularly. I'm on
dialup, so I would echo what Rivka's sentiments. That said, if I'm the only
one on dialup, I don't expect the list to tailor to my needs.

Mark
KS
----- Original Message -----
From: "Road's End Farm" <>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 8:49 AM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Time for list message footer update...filtering files


>
> On Feb 4, 2011, at 9:57 PM, Lawrence F. London, Jr. wrote:
>
> > And should I filter out .pdf (Adobe Acrobat) and .pps (PowerPoint)
> > files? Yes? No?
>
>
> I like allowing pdf's but filtering by size. Not everyone can open
> a .pps, so it might make sense to disallow these and encourage
> the .pdf format, which is specifically designed to work with any system.
>
> When I had dialup I wanted attachments down in the lower end of the KB
> range. It's not only a PDF issue; I've seen some very large tif and
> even jpg files -- while it's easy enough to shrink a jpg before
> sending, a lot of people don't bother, and some don't understand that
> they should. And bear in mind that people on dialup aren't likely to
> be on line continuously, and may therefore be trying to download at
> one time all the messages that came through during a period of many
> hours or even several days; so if several people sent emails with
> images, the total download time is going to be considerably longer.
> Also, dialup is rarely exactly 56KB; people out at the far end of the
> phone lines may get a lot less. When I had dialup it usually in
> practice gave me speeds in the 20-28KB range.
>
>
> -- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
> Fresh-market organic produce, small scale
>
>
>
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