Re: attachments
- Subject: Re: attachments
- From: L* P*
- Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 14:33:50 -0700
At 3:46 AM -0700 4/20/02, L Schmiege wrote:
>Ref: attachments
>
>Those people with flower pictures can put them on the free yahoo or
>hotmail site. Then they need to give the information to the group
>so they can go to the site and look at the posted pictures. That
>way we can see them easily and those that pay for each minute on
>line and avoid having to download them. This should make both views
>happy. I pay per minute, but my server gives me cheaper and more
>expensive times.
>
>Lorraine Schmiege
>
What I think is an even better method than this one is to just set up
a second mailing list, but on yahoo (yahoogroups), that is just for
images. I know of several plant-related lists that do this and it
works extremely well. Those that can either afford to or have the
high-speed connection or patience can subscribe and get the images,
and those that don't want any images, and also don't want to worry
about attached viruses, can choose NOT to subscribe to the image
list. Meanwhile, the main list can be set to not allow any kind of
attachment. When someone wants to make special mention of some image
they want people to see, they can tell the main list that they're
planning on sending it to the image list. It can be named something
easy such as medit-plant-images, for example.
I subscribe to two lists that use this method, the International Bulb
Society, and the Passiflora list. No one has complained since they
were begun.
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--Lee Poulsen
Pasadena area, California, USDA Zone 9-10
