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 09:49:03 -0500
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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