Sat, 6 Jun 98 14:15:18 +0200 - Message No. 3328
From: Hiroshi Nakano

Subject: Attachments and so on


Last days a mail from the list crashed or blocket my mail server. 
I working with mails and the internet for more than 8 years. Sending 
attachments to all people isn't very professional. Because not everybody 
is intersted in this stuff. Keep in mind there are some Providers with 
restrictions of the size of mails.
And please keep the following points in mind:

1: email is a short and easy form of communications. There is no use to 
send a mail and the same text as (for example) a word file. Not everybody 
is useing Microsoft in the World. (There are better Systems and Pros ;-))

2. Pictures and Pros. Hey who cares about exe files and viruses so on? 
There are other Systems than Windoze and Plug and Pray. For example MACOS 
and UNIX.

3. If you get mails more than 50 a day and all are posing attachments 
with for example 500K. How may data will this guy get on his account and 
how big is the ammount on the line?

4. My suggestions 1: If you can't live without publishing or placing 
DOCS, and PROS on the Internet Place it on on your own website or ftp 
server for downloading. With a comment in your mail.

5. Suggestions 2: If one see how really big lists (more than 50000 
members) are organized
one can do the same: If i have a question and somebody wants to write me 
an answer. This guy will write it directly to me and not over the list. 
And i will post all suggestions/answers in a summery to evrybody a few 


days later. And if you are honest who cares about when you are in holyday 
or when you are back?


Hiroshi Nakano
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