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Please don't, and thank you for not doing it. ---Steve Lindblom <s_lindblom@co*.co*> wrote: > > How many times do we have to tell people - don't send attachements to the > list? It's stupid, inconsiderate, and irritating. > > A lot of us in the backwoods pay for connect time, have slow feeds and no > way to refuse large messages/attachments - what happens with me is my > computer is tied up for five minutes while the stupid thing unloads, and > then it is inevitably in a form I can't open anyhow. > > Someone sent one a while back that took forever to download, and would > bomb before it finished. I lost my Email for a weekend as a result - > Everytime I tried to check my Email, the evil thing would start downloading > again, then bomb. No way to get rid of it from my end, had to wait until > monday to call the server and have them erradicate it on their machine. > > If you've got something big you think some people on the list may want to > see, just tell them you have it, and Email it to anyone who asks. But don't > waste the bandwidth for the rest of us with it. > > > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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