There have been a rash of screenshots and other attachments sent to the mailing lists lately, so I thought I would make a formal request in my capacity of List Mom:
Please stop doing that.
They won’t go through, and I (or another of the volunteer admins) will have to log in to a web panel and delete them.
If you need to illustrate your messages to the list, simply upload your image file somewhere public (a Web server would be a good choice) and include a complete link to that image in your message. If you want to get fancy, you can make a Markdown link to the image, and it will appear inline for Web visitors. Just type your link in the following format:
Put it all alone on a line like that, and you’ll have a nice inline image.
There is a very good reason for this policy, just so you know. About half of the members of this list are subscribed entirely by mail. And many more get a combination of Web and mail. Each attachment you add to your messages would have to be duplicated thousands of times to be sent to each list member, which is an enormous bloat of disk space and bandwidth on Softpress’s rented server.
You can also use Dropbox to create a public space to link from. Get a free
account here: Dropbox.com
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Ernie Simpson
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Walter Lee Davis email@hiddenwrote:
There have been a rash of screenshots and other attachments sent to the
mailing lists lately, so I thought I would make a formal request in my
capacity of List Mom:
Please stop doing that.
They won’t go through, and I (or another of the volunteer admins) will
have to log in to a web panel and delete them.
If you need to illustrate your messages to the list, simply upload your
image file somewhere public (a Web server would be a good choice) and
include a complete link to that image in your message. If you want to get
fancy, you can make a Markdown link to the image, and it will appear inline
for Web visitors. Just type your link in the following format:
Put it all alone on a line like that, and you’ll have a nice inline image.
There is a very good reason for this policy, just so you know. About half
of the members of this list are subscribed entirely by mail. And many more
get a combination of Web and mail. Each attachment you add to your messages
would have to be duplicated thousands of times to be sent to each list
member, which is an enormous bloat of disk space and bandwidth on
Softpress’s rented server.