Dear Colleagues: I (and not a few others) receive the numerous daily postings to museum-l in digest mode. This means (for those of you not familiar with digest mode) that we get one message a day with all the posts and an index to them so we can read what we want to read and not bother with the rest. For us, attachments are ugly to say the least. In the spirit of collegiality, I ask that people cease sending attachments - especially long ones - to the whole list. For us 'digesters', attachments are not true attachments - rather they follow each message and are always illegible. Recently valuable information pertaining to art and law was sent as an attachment - twice. While some subscribers no doubt found this attachment extremely useful, for those of us receiving this huge 748K illegible attachment - see a sample of what we get in the snippet below - it merely served to clog up the works - going on for pages and pages and pages and more pages (kind of reminiscent of sections of Douglas Davis' long sentence <http://math240.lehman.cuny.edu/sentence1.html> I am fortunate to have a relatively fast modem so I didn't have to wait for more than a few minutes for museum-l to download, but I pity those people who are connected at a slower speed. So again, please spare us attachments! Please, send them privately to those who request them, send the URLs to the list, or provide telnet addresses. Thanks for your consideration! Suzanne Quigley snippet... AAAAAACAAAAjgAAAb5hcnQgbGF3c1RFWFRUQkI2AQAAAACB=0DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA/v= FKy/7xUY9LbQwA/3V8NwAAAQAAAAE8AAAAPAAAAIIAaHR0=0DcDovL2FydHMudXNmLmVkdS9tdXN= ldW0vcGl4L1VTRkJ0Ry5naWYAQHIpN8FSGTcFAAAAAAAA=0DAABodHRwOi8vYWRmb3JjZS5pbWdp= cy5jb20vP2Fkc2Vydnw5fDEyODM5fDF8Mzd8bWlzYz1f=0DQURGT1JDRV9USU1FXwDMoZ9DLzfv3= Cs3CgAAAAAAAAAAaHR0cDovL3N0YWRpdW13ZWIuY29t=0DL3RoZV9yZWdpc3RyYXRpb25fb2ZfYW= 5fYXJ0d29yay9pbWFnZXMvn0MvN+/cKzcKAAAAAAAA=0DAABodHRwOi8vc3RhZGl1bXdlYi4AAAA= WAAEAAAAAAAsACQAEAAAACQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAC=0D//4AAAAIACoABgF8Am4AAAAIAAIydQAB ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ museum-l.html. You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).