The attachment stripping mechanism of autox.team.net is brilliant. I am
sick of people sending me pictures of a raindrop that they think has a
funny shape, or a nail clipping that they found in their new (old)
house. Please let's keep the function as it is otherwise we will get
emails with "look at this car I saw outside the public toilets, and the
other picture is of my dog that sits in the back of my
MG". ...............aaaagghhhh!
This message has been stripped of flames.
At 10:54 PM 1/28/2003 +0000, Bob D. wrote:
>Text thrift may indeed be a virtue, but in this day of mpeg, jpeg, streaming
>video, mp3, internet radio and multi-gigabyte hard drives; our puny little
>emails must be a drop in the proverbial bit-bucket. (My wife is on several
>lists that allow jpeg file attachments/inserts.) Does autox.team.net really
>need to be so frugal? Perhaps the server, this list is on, has severe
>storage limitations. (Just a comment, please don't take it as flame bait.)
>
>Bob Donahue (Still stuck in the '50s)
>Email - bobmgtd@insightbb.com
>52 MGTD - NEMGTR #11470
>71 MGB - NAMGBR #7-3336
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Paul Root" <proot@iaces.com>
>To: "Bullwinkle" <yd3@nvc.net>
>Cc: "mgs" <mgs@autox.team.net>
>Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 2:34 AM
>Subject: Re: Not LBC, but related to MG email lists and the internet
>
>
> > Bullwinkle wrote:
> >
> > >1) Set your email composer to send in text only except
> > >where needed.
> > >
> > Scott McNeally (Sun) had a great comment on this 5+ years ago. He compared
> > a overblown Microsoft email message with fonts and colors and a text
>message
> > something like : "Let's hvae lunch" spelled incorrectly on purpose to
> > show just
> > how much computing power is wasted.
> >
> > And the part about only quoting what you need too, the old News readers
> > for (CNews and INN) would inforce that you typed more than you quoted.
> >
> > One other point to make is to minimize cross posting.
> >
> > >Now if we could just get rid of the spamming mail, that
> > >would make the biggest difference with regards to email.
> > >
> > I installed Spamassassin last week on FreeBSD and integrated it into my
> > procmail filters. I went from 100+ spam messages getting past my home
> > grown filters in a week to 2 since Sunday. I think I read in the sparse
>doco
> > that it has Windows availablity.
> >
> >
> > It even caught Jeff Zorn's (LBCarCo) spam. :-) I fixed the config to let
> > that
> > through.
> >
> > Paul.
Regards
Barrie
Barrie Robinson
barrier@bconnex.net
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