On May 19, 2005, at 2:54 AM, Lisa Law wrote:
> You'll note that most attachments that arrive on this list are job
> ads/phd studentships/conference programmes or other things that could
> quite easily be cut and pasted into emails. It baffles me why people
> don't do this when they know the forum policy on attachments. Those
> of us regularly working on modems (and paying for a phone line to do
> so) would be much happier if people took the 30 seconds it would take
> to do this. Not sure how that would restrict discussion on the list.
Exactly. Attachments are seldom necessary, and often a hassle to deal
with. And just because you don't directly pay for bandwidth and
storage doesn't mean it's free. Many services actually do have
bandwidth quotas; if you exceed them for a month, you lose access.
As for discussion on this list, I have to say that I find the
discussion here really thin. How often is there any discussion about
some meaningful issue? I'd go so far as to say that if people were
forced to not rely on attachments, perhaps it might improve the
discussion ;-)
Bruce
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