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>At 05:31 PM 1/11/95 GMT, Steve Millard wrote:
>>I've scanned in a nice picture of Ian diving with the Cis-Lunar rebreather.
>>Is anyone interested in me sending it out ?
>>At present it's in 24 bit TIF format & I could attach it to email. Or I also
>
>PLEASE! You could "ftp" it to me (ftp://ftp.btg.com/pub/incoming), or just
>attach it. I'd really appreciate it. (uh, if you've got it in JPEG or GIF,
>particularly, but I'll take what I can get).
PLEASE be careful if/when you attach big stuff like pictures to mail
messages so that you send then ONLY to people who have specifically
requested them, and not to an entire mailing list or newsgroup (unless,
of course, it's a group meant for binaries and/or pictures). There are
several SCUBA-related ftp sites which make for a much nicer distribution
method than email (emailing a pointer to the ftp sites is fine, though).
Many people these days pay for disk space, online time, and/or long
distance phone calls to download news and mail. Sure, we can delete
the message, but we may have already been charged for receiving,
downloading, or storing it until we do. Even for people who don't pay,
huge mail messages can be a big headache for those who maintain your
systems.
I'm just trying to prevent problems here, since some people don't realize
just what happens when they send this kind of stuff out, or don't check
who they're actually sending it TO -- I've seen plenty of messages on this
list that look a lot like they should have been private replies. Not a big
deal for a ten line message, but a multi-megabyte attachment could be a rude
surprise for some of us.
--tab
--
Tracey Baker tab@pa*.co*
"I don't think safety is the main issue here...
You'd be stupid not to be safe." - J.Comly
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