Hi Laura,

I was trying to help someone with a specific question, and I assumed those
who were interested took the time to download and those who had no interest
didn't bother. State laws are lengthy by their very nature, and mime format
is EXTREMELY common and useful over the internet  - all you need to have is
an interest in obtaining the right decoders.

Why am I getting this obnoxious mail from you all? I Am I supposed to
apologize? Or pay people for their time?  I download lengthy attachments all
the time, if I'm interested in the topic. If you're not interested, DON'T
BOTHER TO DOWNLOAD!

Does it occur to any of you how long it might have taken me to compile the
data into a readable format to help Josephine? Should I not have bothered
trying to help? Maybe those of you who are so annoyed at spending 5 minutes
downloading a helpful text should all do your OWN blasted research the way
professional museum workers do!

Yikes, lighten up.

Allan

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>>From: laura dickstein <[log in to unmask]>
>>Subject: Re: Art Law Guidelines for Art Galleries
>>
>>Not only that, but it took me over five minutes to down load each of your
>>documents.
>>
>>Laura
>>[log in to unmask]
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>>I'm attaching here an exerpt from the New York State Consolidated Laws
>>on Arts and Cultural Affairs, as it is to large for an email.
>>
>>Maybe it could be helpful to many people - gallerists
>>in New York are breaking these laws constantly, and
>>most New York artists don't know about
>>them.
>>
>>A number of members wern't able to open my attachment (Arts and Cultural
laws
>>in New York State), so I'm re-mailing in mime format...
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>>Subject: Re: Art Law Guidelines for Art Galleries
>>
>>You had some nerve sending such a huge attachment to MUSEUM-L newsgroup
>>with more than 2,000 recipients daily. That sort of huge 700,000 byte
>>file would have just as easily fit onto YOUR PERSONAL website, and then
>>you could have sent a message to the entire list telling them the URL
>>where it was located. Then the other 1,999 or so people who did not want
>>to read it would not have had to endure your torturous waste of money,
>>time and resources.
>>
>>Mark Friedman
>>Manager of Information Systems
>>[log in to unmask]

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>>From: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Problematic Posting
>>
>>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.
>>
>>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.
>>
>>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 .
>>
>>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.
>>
>>Mark Friedman
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