Dear All
The Australian ccSalon is a great initiative, thanks for the
info, Dr
Coates.
However, why copy the full content, objects included, of
http://creative
commons.org.au/ccsalon in an html / rich text e-mail? As
a result, it weighed 1302 kb.
True, nowadays, the old "text-only no attachments"
rule for
mailing-lists may have been rendered obsolete, because if
people have
access to the internet at all, it is in most cases broadband
access.
In most cases but not in all, though: there are places
within 10 miles
of Lugano where you can't get broadband, let alone in far
less
economically favored areas of the world.
And broadband is not the only factor. For instance my
provider,
bluewin.ch, limits storage capacity for e-mail accounts to
30 Mb if you
have low-range broadband access, 10 Mb if you are on
dial-up. I have the
former, but can still travel, even with seldom possibilities
to read my
mail via the web, in spite of the fact that I often get over
200
legitimate messages a day, mainly from mailing lists,
because most of
them are light. But when I am traveling, 25 e-mails over
1'300kb between
times I can check my mails via the web would block my
account. And even
if I caught the mammoths in time, I would have to delete
them or
reforward them to myself without the attachments before
deleting them.
And again, I am among the priviledged. Many people -
including Cc
activists - can *only* have web e-mail and can *only* use
public access
points, with no possibility to download it, as many public
access point
don't allow downloading to an external support (USB key for
instance).
Granted, web e-mail storage (say for Yahoo or Gmail) has
dramatically
increased in the last years. Nevertheless, should e-mails
over 1'000 kb
should become normal in mailing lists, this would create a
problem.
So why not decide that if objects like PDFs or images are
also available
on the web, we give the URL for them in e-mails rather than
attaching them?
Best
Claude Almansi
--
Claude Almansi
CH-6532 Castione
Gruppo Noi Media:
blog: http://noimedia.iobloggo
.com
podcast: http://noimedia.podspot.de
wiki: http://noimedia.wikisp
aces.com
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ia
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