I'm of the same mind. Links work just fine and are blazingly fast if
you don't click on them. If you do click on them they offer the ability
to provide superior viewing over email attachments.
Chuck Norcutt
Dawid Loubser wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I have to say that I am with Moose here. Though I like the immediacy
> of an image embedded
> in an e-mail, the volume of this list really precludes the widespread
> use of attachments,
> I am not on a bad connection, but I do think that, for anybody not
> connecting for 10 days
> or so, and then downloading a vast amount of information (even if it's
> limited to 40Kb per
> attachment) would be a great annoyance.
>
> If we wish to have the immediacy of embedded images, we really should
> switch to a 'forum' format, or
> just descend like a great black cloud on any of the existing OLympus
> forums (on APUG, Photo.net, etc)
> and 'take over'. Then one does not have to physically download all
> messages, only ones in which one
> is interested.
>
> However, I presume this has all been discussed before my time, and
> there is clearly a reason why the
> mailing list format works for this quirky group of individuals (hey,
> I'm part of it!).
>
> So, let's please refrain from using attachments unless it's really
> urgent - and 40Kb is too small
> for images anyway (would need to be either tiny, or extreme JPEG
> compression), so it should
> sort itself out naturally, actually.
>
> So, business as usual then...
>
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