Another issue to consider is that many list members will not receive an
attachment at all, due to the format in which they receive e-mail, their
software, their settings, etc. The standard digest version of the
message in question (as I received it) consisted of more than 9,000
lines of "0DYSBjbGFzcyBBCm1pc2RlbWVhbm9yLgoKIC". If there was any
information in the file that I would have found valuable, I'll never
know.

Meg Ehr


> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Date:    Sat, 18 Sep 1999 21:50:34 -0400
> From:    Mark Friedman <[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

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