On Fri, 3 Aug 2001 ncoplin@orbeng.com wrote:
> The other option which springs to mind is that the router store the
> attachment when the email is received, and substitute for a html link back
> to cling.qu.se
On discussion forums such as mailing lists and newsgroup, I prefer links
to attachments for various reasons, including:
- those who are not interested or are away from their e-mail for extensive
periods don't risk exceeding their incoming mail quota
- the load on the infrastructure is smaller (the mail gateways of all
subscribers, the mailing list server and the mailing list archive)
- there is less risk of technical problems: the sender can verify the
appearance of the document before sending and re-sending anything, which
is not so true for e-mail attachments
Only if the mailing list server can be equipped with something that
extracts attachments and replaces them with links, I can accept sending
attachments. But I don't think that such a system could be made
bullet-proof with the limited resources we have. I'd rather use those
resources for developing something for the Commodore.
As far as I know, there are free home page hosting services that you could
use for storing documents you want to distribute to the cbm-hackers
audience. One of the first ones was GeoCities.
Marko
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