My opinion is that attached images in bb posts should be allowed:
1) Storage & network bandwidth is cheap
2) Attached (even inline) images are convenient to understanding
the question/issue at hand
3) Emails are very easily deleted
4) If images are to be "attached" via web-links, then it may not be
possible to refer to them appropriately in the archives if the images
are ever removed from the hosting server. - it seems to me that the
archive of the bb is an excellent resource, but is diminished if the
content can not be maintained centrally.
-Doug
On 7/2/2010 11:04 AM, Frances C. Bernstein wrote:
> Why not put images, maps, or data files on your own web page
> and then send out a link to that material? Then the e-mails
> are small and anyone that wants to see the files has easy
> access.
>
> Frances Bernstein
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> On Fri, 2 Jul 2010, Tim Gruene wrote:
>
>> Maybe this netiquette is a little outdated. Sending a few MB to
>> thousands of
>> people is probably not much more than noise compared to current net
>> traffic.
>>
>> There is the IMAP protocol which overcomes the problem of modem
>> connections,
>> which anyhow probably only affects a very, very small amount of
>> people nowadays,
>> and there are plenty of mail user agents which do not have a
>> paperclip button,
>> e.g. mutt, pine, etc, which address the very same problem.
>>
>> It's is a lot easier to show a jpg-image a few kB in size than to
>> attempt to
>> describe what you see with words.
>>
>> Anyhow, the FAQ
>> (http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#formats) the
>> CCP4 netiquette (http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/ccp4bb.php#using) refers to
>> explicitly
>> allows MIME attachments, even though I also conside MIME outdated and am
>> extremely glad I do not need to fiddle with uu-en/de-code anymore.
>>
>> Again: maybe it's time to update the CCP4 netiquette.
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> P.S.: I wonder how much traffic this email will induce ;-)
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 09:33:01AM -0400, Ed Pozharski wrote:
>>> Several recent posts with decently sized attachments (now in cross eyed
>>> stereo too!) prompt this (annual?) anti-paperclip-button rant. Lucky
>>> for me, I can just recycle the old messages:
>>>
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>>>
>>> Cheers from the self-appointed thought police,
>>>
>>> Ed.
>>>
>>> --
>>> "I'd jump in myself, if I weren't so good at whistling."
>>> Julian, King of Lemurs
>>
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>> Tim Gruene
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