Original Posted By: "Clay Spurgeon"
"RE: New Lists are Good to Go!" (Oct 25, 1:15pm)Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: Sending Enclosures to the List...>-------------->Hi Matt,>>Can users send attachments such as photos and drawings?>>Steve Eldredge>IT Services>Brigham Young University>--------------No, sorry... I have a detector for enclosures that will block them. There area lot of reasons for blocking enclosures to an email list. Size of the Archiveis the biggest one, keeping the archive search time to a minimum is another,and the fact that MIME is not allow is another (Mime is generally used toencode the enclosures). I have a open policy of freely put any photos ordrawings people might want to share on the FTP Server. Another reason for blocking enclosures is the conservation of Networkbandwidth. Let's say that someone sends a 2mb enclosure to an email list with200 people on it. 2Mb * 200 = 400Mb worth of outbound traffic! The RV-List,for example, has 1500 people on it; that would be 3Gb (Yes, that's GIGABYTES)of outbound traffic! Blocking enclosures makes a lot of sense when you thinkof it that way...Matt DralleEmail List Admin.-- Matt G. Dralle | Matronics | P.O. Box 347 | Livermore | CA | 94551925-606-1001 Voice | 925-606-6281 FAX | dralle(at)matronics.com Emailhttp://www.matronics.com/ W.W.W. | Featuring Products For Aircraft________________________________________________________________________________