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Date: | Fri, 18 Oct 1996 10:30:47 -0600 |
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>I had a problem with a recent digest form of Museum-L. It was taking an
>awful long time to load, preventing me from getting to my other mail. I
>found a way to have my mail server skip it, and it appears to have been lost
>in the aether. I did receive an error message saying that the message had
>not loaded, and it listed its size as something well over 2 MB! Not good.
>Files of that size should be offered via an FTP site or on the web, not
>through a listserve and email which is really for shorter correspondence.
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>Edward Jay Pershey
I agree, Ed. That might have been something from the Getty that was posted
last night, which I saw this morning. You would think they could afford a
place on their website for that kind of stuff. It took a long time to load
(and to delete) and as you said it took over 2 MB of space. It filled the
equivalent of 130 messages, and it was all computer language gibberish. I
assue there were graphics, but I didn't bother to download it. The problem
is that it takes an awful long time for that to be loaded, tying up your
other mail. I believe in free speech, but there are more appropriate
places for big messages like that. As you say, a web page is a much better
place. Maybe there is a need for some rules to prevent a reoccurrance.
IMHO
HBC
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