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From: "Frances C {- dot -} Bernstein" fcb {- at -} BERNSTEIN-PLUS-SONS {- dot -} COM
Date: 2010-07-02

Why not put images, maps, or data files on your own web page
and then send out a link to that material? Then the e-mails
are small and anyone that wants to see the files has easy
access.

Frances Bernstein

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On Fri, 2 Jul 2010, Tim Gruene wrote:

> Maybe this netiquette is a little outdated. Sending a few MB to thousands of
> people is probably not much more than noise compared to current net traffic.
>
> There is the IMAP protocol which overcomes the problem of modem connections,
> which anyhow probably only affects a very, very small amount of people nowadays,
> and there are plenty of mail user agents which do not have a paperclip button,
> e.g. mutt, pine, etc, which address the very same problem.
>
> It's is a lot easier to show a jpg-image a few kB in size than to attempt to
> describe what you see with words.
>
> Anyhow, the FAQ (http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#formats) the
> CCP4 netiquette (http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/ccp4bb.php#using) refers to explicitly
> allows MIME attachments, even though I also conside MIME outdated and am
> extremely glad I do not need to fiddle with uu-en/de-code anymore.
>
> Again: maybe it's time to update the CCP4 netiquette.
>
> Tim
>
> P.S.: I wonder how much traffic this email will induce ;-)
>
> On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 09:33:01AM -0400, Ed Pozharski wrote:
>> Several recent posts with decently sized attachments (now in cross eyed
>> stereo too!) prompt this (annual?) anti-paperclip-button rant. Lucky
>> for me, I can just recycle the old messages:
>>
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/ccp4bb@jiscmail.ac.uk/msg11949.html
>>
>> Cheers from the self-appointed thought police,
>>
>> Ed.
>>
>> --
>> "I'd jump in myself, if I weren't so good at whistling."
>> Julian, King of Lemurs
>
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> Tim Gruene
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