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"Hartley, Elizabeth" <[log in to unmask]> > Hi - can anyone tell me who the list owner is for lis-link and/or > whether there would be any problem sending an attachment on an email > to lis-link and whether logos can be embedded in the email? I've > looked on the Jiscmail website but can't find the info. I think [log in to unmask] should reach the owner. Sending attachments to mailing lists is a bad idea because as soon as you attach a binary file to an email, it expands by about 30% (because of base64 encoding), making it even larger. It is better to include a URL where the file can be downloaded. If you don't have an upload space, try Open Directory - Web Applications: Storage: Free. So I'd not send attachments to mailing lists unless it's usual practice (like sending a patch to a software development list) or you really have no alternative. You will be taking up a lot of space, roughly the size of the attachment multiplied by the number of people on the list. One 3Mb waste is bad. 300 times 3Mb gets painful if common. Also, some of those people may be reading over expensive/slow mobile links (like I currently am - grrr, thanks o2fail!) and if your email gets too big, they'll delete the email unread. Small text emails are best. Sometimes there's no alternative, though. Hope that informs, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/