Cohousing-L Mailing List: DO NOT Attach files to messages to cohousing-L

[Fred H Olson (fholson]

Rowena's bylaws attachment was huge and probably unusable by anyone.

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//// Please DO NOT Attach files to messages to cohousing-L ////
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Our current listserver does not handle attachments well (or reject them
unfortunately).  Wordprocessor files tend to be huge for the info they
contain.

I got several bounces from subscribers due to this 104 K message.
Very few people read long messages so why have them sent to everyone?

What to do instead.
Convert the info to text and include it in the body of a message
tho limit the size of messages (anything over 20K is awfully big).

Put big files on the web and post a note about them and the URL

Post a note about files offer to send them to people who request them.


Fred

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