RE: [Freetype] Could people avoid sending attachments to the list ?

[Pedriana, Paul]

Is there possibly an option with the list server 
to filter away attachments for those who don't 
want them? I think most professionals, especially 
those like us doing graphics work, have nice 
computers with broadband connections. It's 
unfortunate to have to reduce the traffic to the 
lowest common demoninator because some people are 
still using modems or have other reasons to want 
small emails.

I understand and respect the needs of those who
have these limitations; I just wonder if there
might be a solution (like optional filtering) that 
would give us the best of both worlds. The graphics
that some have sent have been very instructive to 
me. Some authors might have some web server account
that they can easily upload to; for those I would
imagine this would be a preferred solution.

Paul

P.S. The lame large BMP that I sent out the other 
day was a mistake that I didn't mean to do. It was 
supposed to be an 8K compressed PNG file, but somehow
it got converted into somthing else. :(











-----Original Message-----
From: Wenlin Institute [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 10:11 AM
To: address@hidden
Subject: [Freetype] Could people avoid sending attachments to the list?

Dear Freetype People,

I enjoy using Freetype and being subscribed to the list very much, but I
suspect I'm not the only subscriber who would generally prefer not to
receive attachments like all the bitmap files that have been going around
recently.

Where possible, could people put files somewhere to be downloaded, and just
put the URL's into their messages to the list? Where this isn't possible,
an alternative would be to send the attachments only to those individuals
who specifically request them, rather than to the entire list.

Sorry if I'm wrong about the prevailing etiquette; maybe I'm at fault for
not having some kind of e-mail filtering. I certainly wouldn't want to
inhibit the great exchanges of ideas that are going on.

Best Wishes,

Tom Bishop

Wenlin Institute, Inc.         Software for Learning Chinese
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