Re: netiquette!

["Jon Campbell" <jon@cqs.com>]

Good point, Neil, especially relevant to connections from outside the US.
Attachments are unusually bloated in size (a file with only the word "hello"
is 25K bytes in MS-Word) and many mailers do not even handle attachments in
a uniform, standard way.

Directions: Instead of sending an attachment, go into the application
(MS-Word, WordPerfect, etc) and in the Edit menu click on Select All (or
manualy select the part of the text that you want to send) and again in the
Edit menu click on Copy (or ^C - type C while holding down the Ctrl key).
Then go to the mail application to the text window where you want to insert
the text and type ^V - type V while holding down the Ctrl key).

Some listservers don't even allow attachments because of the pain they cause
users with slow links.

Regards
Jon

From: Neil Tangri mailto:ntangri@essential.org>
To: Multiple recipients of list DIOXIN-L <dioxin-l@essential.org>
Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 6:47 PM
Subject: netiquette!


> A request to all list-users:
>
> PLEASE DON'T SEND ATTACHMENTS TO THE LIST!
>
> For those of us with slow internet connections, attachments (particularly
> long ones) can be death. They are costly and can cause a tenuous
connection
> to crash. So if you have a long document that you want to distribute, send
> a brief description to the list and those of us who want (and can handle)
> the document will ask for it.
>
> Thank you for your consideration,
>
> Neil Tangri
>
>