As well as John's reminder below, there is also another very good reason for
not sending attachments - a lot of email users *will not open* a message
with attachments!!
The main reason for this is that if there is a virus in an attached file,
the safest way to deal with it is to delete the message.
If you've something to share with the list make sure it goes into the body
of your message.
Regards
Laurie
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-----Original Message-----
From: A general Library and Information Science list for news and
discussion. [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of John Wintrip
Sent: 13 February 2003 16:26
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Subject: Attachments
A large number of messages to lis-link recently have contained attachments.
In
these circumstances I would have expected the lis-link listowner to send out
a
reminder and have attempted to contact him/her without success. Therefore, I
would like to remind lis-link members of the guidance on sending
attachments,
quoted from the JISCMAIL website:
[quote]
Can I send attachments to JISCmail lists?
Please do not. If you use attachments, a lot of people won't be able read
your
file, either because their email program uses a different method of decoding
files, or because they don't have the right word processing software. Also,
some people have a limited amount of storage space for email, and if this is
filled up by messages with attached files then all other messages are
rejected
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