My problem with attachments is a).

At home I welcome attachments because the choice of software used to
receive and view them is mine.

At work, the choice of software is dictated by the network
administrator and the budget. We are using an old version of Pegasus
Mail which handles attachments but in a very clumsy way; viewing
them is not worth the trouble. Most images are unviewable anyway as
they form a trailer to the message in the form of utter gibberish.

Working in a photographic archives, I would be the first to agree that a picture is worth a thousand
words, but text is all I can conveniently accomodate. The best way to
disseminate an image would be with a URL of its web page.

Nora Hague
Senior Cataloguer
Notman Photographic Archives/McCord Museum

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Date sent:                Wed, 29 Sep 1999 16:35:02 -0500
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From:             Terry Vidal <[log in to unmask]>
Organization:     University of Northern Iowa Museum
Subject:               Re: attachments (a new thread on a retired theme)
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Dear L'ers:

I experimented a few weeks ago, during the 're:attachments' discussion,
by sending a few attachments of my own.

(SNIP)

The cons against attachments are summed up generally as follows:

a) end user has old/incompatable technology.
b) sender has poor netiquette skills.
c) end user is in digest mode and the digest becomes inflated.

I appreciate all of these reasons, though with 1/2 of (a) the least.
After all, compatable software is free. Hardware on the otherhand...,
well I sympathize.
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Nora Hague                                      Tel: 514-398-7100
Senior Cataloger / Access 2D                    Fax: 514-398-5045
Notman Photographic Archives
McCord Museum of Canadian History
690 Sherbrooke West, Montreal
Quebec, Canada H3A 1E9          E-mail: [log in to unmask]
                         Web Site: http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/

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