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The piclist list guide is here: http://www.piclist.com/techref/listguide.htm and says, as point 9, ---------- If you have a new application, graphic, or whatever that takes up more than 1K you would like to share with everyone on the List, please don't send it as an attachment in a note to the List. Instead, either indicate you are have this amazing piece of work and tell people that you have it and where to request it (either to you directly or to a web server address). Many listservers, if a large file is received may automatically delete (thrown into the "bit bucket") it and you may or may not get a message telling you what happened. If you don't have a web page of your own or one you can access, requesting somebody to put it on their web page or ftp server is acceptable. ---------- The long standing policy is that attachments, HTML mail, etc are not acceptable. The admins are pretty forgiving about it, but I don't think people understand that we are being given bandwidth to run the list from MIT, on the order of 9GB/month (IIRC, I did the calculations awhile ago). /Each/ 1k message gets duplicated and consumes 2MB of bandwidth, nevermind the much larger messages and attachments that get sent out as well. If each person could configure the list settings so they could choose to receive or not receive attachments, and if someone was able to donate 20GB of bandwidth per month, then there would probably be very little wrong with attachments. As you mention below, though, this shouldn't be in the PIC topic. Sorry there's no rant topic. ;-) -Adam Jon Baker wrote: {Quote hidden}>>3 - HTML or MIME encoded email. >> > >I don't know if theres a policy on attachments sent to the list.. some of >the recent ones have been quite useful - the circuit for driving EL >backlights for instance. > >Would you prefer UUEncoding for the attachments? Either your mail reader >doesnt support mime in which case you would prefer uucoded attachments, or >you just can't be bothered to press that extra key to choose which mime part >you want to view. > >Jon Baker > >PS.. How about a [RANT] topic? > >-- >http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics >(like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics > > > > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics

> The piclist list guide is here: > http://www.piclist.com/techref/listguide.htm > > and says, as point 9, > ---------- > If you have a new application, graphic, or whatever that takes up more > than 1K you would like to share with everyone on the List, please don't > send it as an attachment in a note to the List. Instead, either indicate > you are have this amazing piece of work and tell people that you have it > and where to request it (either to you directly or to a web server > address). Many listservers, if a large file is received may > automatically delete (thrown into the "bit bucket") it and you may or > may not get a message telling you what happened. > > If you don't have a web page of your own or one you can access, > requesting somebody to put it on their web page or ftp server is acceptable. > ---------- > > The long standing policy is that attachments, HTML mail, etc are not > acceptable. The admins are pretty forgiving about it, but I don't think > people understand that we are being given bandwidth to run the list from > MIT, on the order of 9GB/month (IIRC, I did the calculations awhile > ago). /Each/ 1k message gets duplicated and consumes 2MB of bandwidth, > nevermind the much larger messages and attachments that get sent out as > well. I get it 1k * 2000 members = 2Mb. Correct? I can understand the concern, but I sure don't get the method. Going by the number of attachments posted to the list, I would venture to guess that over-quoted message replies amount to at least 100 - 1000 times the storage and bandwidth consumed by attachments. It seems to me that the biggest waste of space goes to over-quoted text and the incredible stacking piclist signature lines attached by the list server. Just my observations michael brown -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics

source= http://www.piclist.com/postbot.asp?id=piclist\2002\03\19\165830a Excuse me, but the list guidlines are at www.piclist.com/techref/piclist/listfaq.htm not http://www.piclist.com/techref/listfaq.htm The former is specific to the PICList the latter is a general purpose list guide. If I have not made that clear on the site, please tell me where I could improve it. As I remember, the list automatically drops attachements over some size... err... 10K or so? Mike? Dale? Help? --- James Newton: PICList.com webmaster, former Admin #3 spam_OUTjamesnewtonTakeThisOuTpiclist.com 1-619-652-0593 phone http://www.piclist.com/member/JMN-EFP-786 PIC/PICList FAQ: http://www.piclist.com -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.

My bad... -Adam James Newton, webmaster wrote: {Quote hidden}>source= >http://www.piclist.com/postbot.asp?id=piclist\2002\03\19\165830a > >Excuse me, but the list guidlines are at >www.piclist.com/techref/piclist/listfaq.htm >not >http://www.piclist.com/techref/listfaq.htm > >The former is specific to the PICList the latter is a general >purpose list guide. If I have not made that clear on the site, >please tell me where I could improve it. > >As I remember, the list automatically drops attachements over >some size... err... 10K or so? Mike? Dale? Help? > >--- >James Newton: PICList.com webmaster, former Admin #3 >.....jamesnewtonKILLspam@spam@piclist.com 1-619-652-0593 phone >http://www.piclist.com/member/JMN-EFP-786 >PIC/PICList FAQ: http://www.piclist.com > >-- >http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different >ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. > > > > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.