Dear Mato Skrabolo and Brandon Whyte,
I know Brendon Whyte was only trying to be helpful and the
correspondence on driving handedness has given me great pleasure in
recent weeks. Indeed, one of the last conversations I had with my mother
prompted her recollection of driving in Austria in, i think, the early
1930s and having to change to different sides of the road, depending on
where she was.
But the maps did clog up our system terribly. I edit a publication on
Middle East Energy for the Financial Times and was desperately waiting
for some urgent late copy when Brendon's maps clogged up our system for
an hour at a cricial point yesterday morning.
I want to see his maps, and am delighted at Mati's practical suggestion.
Perhaps we could have a voluntary moratorium on overlong files?
With best wishes to both of you--
John Roberts
In message <[log in to unmask]>, Mato Skrabalo
<[log in to unmask]> writes
>Dear Mr. Whyte,
>
>Would you please not send such large attachments (more than 500 kb) to all
>members of the list. Some of us still have limited disk space, and too many
>kilobytes in one message may cause serious problems, especially when trying to
>finish a dissertation. ;-(
>
>I suggest you post a message saying that this file can be obtained directly
>from you, or naming the Internet address where it can be found. Alternatively,
>you may try putting it on the web yourself - if you don't have your own
>server, there are many addresses where you can get dozens of megabytes for
>free (e.g. http://yahoo.geocities.com) That way, you make it universally
>accessible, without blocking other's email accounts.
>
>Thanks,
>Mato Skrabalo
>
>Brendan Whyte wrote:
>
>> Attached are 2 maps from Kincaid's book on driving handedness, one showing
>> shaded countries driving on the left in 1919 (with dates of those who
>> changed post 1919), the other at the time of the book's publication in
>> 1986, shading and asterisking those on the left.
>>
>> Brendan Whyte
>> University of Melbourne
>
--
John Roberts/Ann Milnes Roberts
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