"Censorship" (Was Re: Vista + filePro running on a UMPC)

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Wayne Smith (Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:49:59 -0400 (Eastern Daylight
Time)):

> Bill C. And the fp community in general.
>
> I sent a large 2.4 meg attached photo of new Samsung (Ultra Mobile) Q1p
> running filePro and a TOUCH SCREEN keyboard to the list yesterday, as
> many visually challenged people in the fp community would be astounded
> by the detail and quality of the image.

So why not post "I have a picture.  I'll e-mail it to anyone who want
it"?

> My email software lets me open an attachment or not, its my decision.
> I am guilty of thinking everybodys email can offer you that option.

Opening and viewing the attachment is not the same things as being
forced to download it before you can even make that decision.  It's
not the "you sent an image", it's "you sent a 3.1MB e-mail" to the
list.

[...]
> I have since sent the photo to a few that requested it, feel free to
> email me privately if you want to see a smaller (84k) photo or the
> original (2.4meg) big one. The list censor(s) are the ones who are
> missing out on the whole idea......as usual.

So, you have an image which is only 4% of the size of the one that you
sent, yet you felt that generating gigabytes of e-mail traffic to send
an image that only a few people wanted to see, was a good idea, and that
the list managers are censoring such things?

> Please don't start a flame war over this OK,  I am, after all trying
> to promote filePro, not run it down as many do.

This has nothing to do with filePro, per se.  It has to do with being
a good netizen.  You could have sent the smaller image, which was only
4% the size of the one you did try to send, and say "anyone who wants
the hi-res version of it, contact me".  Or, you could have simply put
a URL for the image in the e-mail.  I'm sure either one would not have
been an issue for anyone.

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