My vote is for reply to go to the list. 99% of my replies are for
the list. The conversation is taking place on the list, and I'm
participating in it, like this one! It's looking like I'm in the
minority on this, though. It's not a huge deal for me. As I said, I
just hit "reply all" and delete what I don't want.
I don't really understand why Allen's experiment should have caused
you such problems. I certainly didn't get any "extra" copies. Just
one of each one sent. I forwarded Allen's email to myself as an
experiment. It took maybe 30 seconds to send and then less than 5
seconds to receive back. The "up" direction is typically slower than
the "down" direction on broadband connections like mine. With a
slower connection like dial-up, it will take a lot longer of
course. If that's what you have, you have my sympathies.
Some email programs have the option to not download files greater
than a specified size. Or sometimes you can leave attachments on the
server by default. Then if you really want to see it, you can click
on it and have it download. I'm not sure what Thunderbird has. It
might be worth checking into if this is a common problem for you.
-Steve T.
At 04:45 AM 10/20/2013, Fletcher Millmore wrote:
>Allen's experiment with the huge files really screwed my computer
>last night. I got at least 5 copies of that, and everything came to
>an agonizing halt, such that I had to shut it down, but it
>wouldn't/couldn't do that.(Computer just slowed to a stop, which I
>thought was a Firefox problem, but was it trying to download all
>those picture files) Once it got all of it, it then took forever
>loading (from where?) the messages to delete them.Took me 4 hours to
>shut down and restart until eventually it cleared all that stuff.
>I think maybe having extremely large file sizes allowed is not good.
>Especially, some folks have a habit of including lots of large file
>pics in one post, which is really a disaster if there is a problem.
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