Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"Test attachment file - only one line long" Good. keep it that way! Francois Robert G. Stevens wrote: > Pat: > > I think what you may have confused is the difference between a WWW link and > an attachment. For example, I will put a link below: > > http://home.istar.ca/~robsteve/elmar2.8.JPG > > This is just a link to a file on the WWW. An intelligent email program > will show it as a clickable link. The file is only tranfereed to your > computer and browser when you click on the link. > > I will also attach a file to this message. In this case, for size > considerations, it is a one line notepad text file about 42 bytes long. > This file would have been uploaded to your computer and all other lug users > computers when they checked their mail. If this was a picture file, it > would be a thousand times bigger at around 42,000 bytes. If you got enough > of these attachments on the LUG, it would take hours to download your > messages. > > The solution is to upload your pictures to the personal web space that most > Internet Providers include for their users. You do not have to make a home > page, but simply upload the file using a FTP program and then send the lug > the location of that file. If you call your ISP help line, they will tell > you where to get the info on doing this. > > Regards, > > Robert Stevens > > At 10:24 AM 6/16/98 -0400, you wrote: > >Hello Carl, > >I did not realize that it would cause problems for some. I don't and have > >not sent attachments, but, I do see some who have attachments. I, > >therefore, just assumed that people did it as they needed. > >Thanks for the info. > >Pat > >prm@photonewsnetwork.com > >Minox007@aol.com > >1-732-288-0009 > > > >---------- > >> From: Carl Socolow <csocolow@microserve.net> > >> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > >> Subject: Re: [Leica] trip from the US > >> Date: Monday, June 15, 1998 11:51 PM > >> > >> Pat wrote: > >> > >> > then write to > >> > the LUG and send your favorite photos as an attachment to your e-mail > >> > messages to the LUG. You can also get free software on the web under > >> > "thumbnails". > >> > >> Pat and Ferdinand, > >> > >> While it may be easy you will not believe the amount of grief you will > >> receive if you do that. On the LUG it is considered bad form, heavy > >> karma, a no-no and generally in bad taste to attach files to your > >> postings. Don't say I didn't warn you. :) > >> > >> -- > >> Carl Socolow > >> > >> Sometimes the wrong thing is exactly the thing you should do. > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > test.txt Name: test.txt > Type: Plain Text (text/plain) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------