;-) Clearing the snow from my glasses, I saw Allison J Parent typed:
><From: Riccardo <chemif_at_mbox.queen.it>
>
><Hmm, sorry but I thought that 77 k attachment file would not make any
><problem (it took 45 sec. to send it).
Another thing about attachments you need to keep in mind, sir Riccardo, is
that on the internet 7-bit info is the norm... 8-bit info (like pictures,
wave files, etc) need to be UUEncoded to be sent over the Internet, and
that will increase the size of the file as well.
This is a quote from my Eudora Pro software, which I have set to ignore
anything over 30K bytes:
"WARNING: The remainder of this message has not been transferred.
The estimated size of this message is 111930 bytes."
You're 77k attachment grew a bit! ;-)
>Generally big is over 49999bytes! Most mailers that is the threshold.
>While some PC mailers will tolerate anything many do not and a lot of unix
>based mailers don't like it either.
Here in the boonies, a lot of folks still have 14.4 or slower modems (4 or
5 people I know do e-mail at 2400 baud here!) and personally, I would say
that anything 35K or larger *after encoding* would be too large for this list.
If you have the technology to send something that big, you should have the
technology to put it on your web page, and just list the URL to it. That's
a very acceptable way to share pictures here, then folks who want to see
can spark up their Nutscrape or whatever bowzer they prefer.
><You could use the "skip big messages" option that most mail program have
><Anyway I will refrain from sending attachements to this list in future.
>
>not all mailers have that!
And even if the mailer did, some folks don't know that the option is
available!
Hope this helps,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
--
Roger Merchberger | If at first you don't succeed,
Programmer, NorthernWay | nuclear warhead disarmament should *not*
zmerch_at_northernway.net | be your first career choice.
Received on Sun Jan 18 1998 - 20:05:04 GMT