monarc (627K)

[Gregory Nielsen]

Sorry, but Paul´s right. The public message could help the new people and
lurkers so they don´t make the same mistake. I´m one of those who freak out
with downloading useless to me big files on my slow third world connection.

----- Original Message -----
From: Pierre A Plauzoles <plauzolesp at bigvalley.net>
To: <leps-l at lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2000 1:16 PM
Subject: Re: monarc (627K)


> "Paul , E.L.G." wrote:
>
> > Please - no more big binary files to the list. Any of the recipients on
> > slow servers will have freaked out at this one.
> >
> > Post the picture to your webspace and tell us the url.
> >
> > Come on - you know the score.
>
> Yes, we all do.  You could do even better by emailing the gentleman
> privately and without being confrontational about it (explain the reason
> and so on), but, given that we who monitor the newsgroup regularly already
> "know the score", I see no reason to take up bandwidth on the newsgroup
for
> this.  As for the principle of it, I see this posting as rather large, yes
> -- to say the least, and especailly for a newsgroup not specifically set
up
> for large graphics files -- but the size of even this file is a mighty
> small price to pay for the beauty in it.
>
> Nest time, before complaining about something like this, please rant and
> rave at Bill Gates for the sloppy code in some of his products.
>