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An alternative is to use a mail program like <color><param>0000,0000,ffff</param>Eudora Pro</color> which can filter messages and block anything over, say 40k. It's worked for me -- <italic><color><param>ffff,0000,0000</param>only a suggestion </color></italic> Try it you may like it IMHO At 09:01 AM 5/26/98 -0500, Steve Lindblom 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'. > > Later, Dr. FeelGood -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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