I also had a terrible time receiving the messages from Sep 17.  It took more than 15 minutes to receive that one message.  Please be considerate of others' modem speeds and hardware abilities when posting large fille or attachements.

Thank you,
Lisa Goodgame

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> Date:    Sat, 18 Sep 1999 21:50:34 -0400
> From:    Mark Friedman <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Problematic posting
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> I was just wondering if anyone else had a problem with a person recently
> posting a message in MIME format, in excess of 700,000 bytes.
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> Shouldn't internet (and newsgroup) courtesy make it customary to post
> such a huge file to a personal website - and then just post the URL, for the
> couple of people interested enough to check it out...at their own time and
> speed.
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> Why such a person would think that this file would be important to anything
> other than a small portion of the 2,000+ group on MUSEUM-L daily- is beyond
> me, and I wonder if the moderator was watching that posting .
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> I enjoy reading this newsgroup daily, but it angers me when I think of the
> thousands of minutes wasted on that download to all the busy people on this
> list....I just wonder if the Internet as a whole can continue to remain so
> unregulated.
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> Mark
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