From Wayne Smith re: Vista + filePro

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2007, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>Quoting Fairlight (Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:18:49 -0400):
>
>> I was forced to reject the original message because Mr. Smith included a
>> ***3.1MB*** image in his email, which besides screwing people on dialup
>> over also almost exceeded my filesystem quota and caused mail to start
>[...]
>> *****
>[...]
>> Here is a picture of it,  IF it can get by the list censors and of
>> course you aren't  HTML challenged... Hahahaha.
>
>Surely you must be able to upload the image to the web somewhere,
>and simply supply the URL, rather than sending a 3.1MB image to
>everyone on the mailing list?  When I wanted to show filePro
>running on Vista way back in last November, I put them on Laura's
>website and then posted the URLs to the list:

This is one of the things I really like about the IMP webmail
piece of the horde system.  One can *EASILY* send attachments as
links which IMP automatically copies to the horde server, adding
link(s) in the message body pointing to the file(s).  It's one of
the few reasons that I actually use a webmail interface, most
frequently ssh'ing to my Linux server, and reading mail in mutt.

FWIW:  Mark did the processing on this as I've been in a week
long Plone bootcamp.  I would have rejected the message with a
message explaining that sending a 3MB file to a few hundred
people is unacceptable, not censorship.  My message might have
said something like ``are you as stupid as you appear to be''?

If I were into modifying messages to the list, the first thing I
would do is configure Mailman to strip or reject all HTML
attachments.

Bill
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