[wxPython] Bob, dude! Don't!

Bob, man, please *DON'T* post freaking huge binaries to any email list! There are people out there who pay per-second fees for their telephone lines, let alone their ISP accounts, and you just cost them a bundle!

You want to share a binary, I suggest you put it on a website, and post the web address. Then anyone that wants it can go out and get it on their own, without inconveniencing everyone on the list.

SIDE NOTE TO ROBIN: Hey, Robin, I'm receiving the list several times a day, sometimes with only a single message in it, instead of all messages collated, once per day. Wuzzup with that? Hourly mailout instead of daily??

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At 03:02 PM 03/13/2001, Bob Klimek <klimek@grc.nasa.gov> wrote:

Something screwed up with my first attempt to send out this e-mail. Here it
is again with the attached images.

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Bob, man, please *DON'T* post freaking huge binaries to any email
list! There are people out there who pay per-second fees for their
telephone lines, let alone their ISP accounts, and you just cost them a

bundle!

They weren't that big, only about 25K total. I've got the list set to block
freaking huge messages, regardless of content.

You want to share a binary, I suggest you put it on a website, and post

the

web address. Then anyone that wants it can go out and get it on their

own,

without inconveniencing everyone on the list.

Always a good idea, but for itty-bitty stuff I don't see the problem of
attaching them to an email. Just think of it as five messages instead of
one with 4 small attachments, after all each picture is worth a thousand
words, which depending on your platform could be 2-8 bytes each! <wink>

SIDE NOTE TO ROBIN: Hey, Robin, I'm receiving the list several times a

day,

sometimes with only a single message in it, instead of all messages
collated, once per day. Wuzzup with that? Hourly mailout instead of

daily??

The digest mode will send the messages if the accumulated messages reach a
certain size, 30K I think, and one at the end of the day if there are any
messages left to send. I can change the threshold but then people would
complain about the freaking huge digests! <wink>

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It was a judgement call. I thought they were small enough not to be a problem. But, the point is well taken.

Cheers,
Bob

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At 04:30 PM 3/13/2001 -0800, you wrote:

>
> Bob, man, please *DON'T* post freaking huge binaries to any email
> list! There are people out there who pay per-second fees for their
> telephone lines, let alone their ISP accounts, and you just cost them a
bundle!

They weren't that big, only about 25K total. I've got the list set to block
freaking huge messages, regardless of content.

> You want to share a binary, I suggest you put it on a website, and post
the
> web address. Then anyone that wants it can go out and get it on their
own,
> without inconveniencing everyone on the list.

Always a good idea, but for itty-bitty stuff I don't see the problem of
attaching them to an email. Just think of it as five messages instead of
one with 4 small attachments, after all each picture is worth a thousand
words, which depending on your platform could be 2-8 bytes each! <wink>

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