Re: [MacPerl] Password Dialog

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

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online@mactech.com (Jeff at MacTech) writes:
>Little <dennis.j.little@lmco.com> wrote:
>
>>>Many times people post things with snippets of code or even
>>>whole programs.

Right.

>>Agreed for me but as this is an international list, I'd like to hear from
>>some in the other areas that have slower connections/higher costs than we
>>do.

Given that the mailing list daemon automatically rejects messages over a
certain length, there is not so much to fear from this.

>I think people can use their own judgement.

Amen to that!

> (I'd be willing to bet that this thread has taken up more bandwidth than the
> largest attachment ever posted to the list.)

Pay up! We've had some quite large attachments in the past :-) However, the
thread has certainly taken more bandwidth than the attachment we're discusssing
right now.

My position on attachments is:

 - Keep them short (~4K is tolerable).
 - If possible, consider posting plain text instead.
 - Whatever you do, don't post HTML :-)

Matthias

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Matthias Neeracher   <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>   http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~neeri
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                         -- Charles Bronson to Ingmar Bergman,
                            according to bradham@panix.com (Bo Bradham)

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