18 Jan
1998
18 Jan
'98
10:39 a.m.
<From: Riccardo <chemif(a)mbox.queen.it>
<Hmm, sorry but I thought that 77 k attachment file would not make any
<problem (it took 45 sec. to send it).
Generally big is over 49999bytes! Most mailers that is the threshold.
While some PC mailers will tolerate anything many do not and a lot of unix
based mailers don't like it either.
<You could use the "skip big messages" option that most mail program have
<Anyway I will refrain from sending attachements to this list in future.
not all mailers have that!
Allison
18 Jan
18 Jan
6:11 a.m.
<From: Riccardo <chemif(a)mbox.queen.it>
<Hmm, sorry but I thought that 77 k attachment file would not make any
<problem (it took 45 sec. to send it).
You're right that takes that long and that is LONG for most users to
accept. My program Pegasus Mail does not show size at all. So I'm
blind to this size until I retieve next emails in a group. Nicest
thing to do: show them a web address, or offer heavy data on request
by email.
Generally big is over 49999bytes! Most mailers that
is the threshold.
While some PC mailers will tolerate anything many do not and a lot of unix
based mailers don't like it either.
<You could use the "skip big messages" option that most mail program have
<Anyway I will refrain from sending attachements to this list in future.
not all mailers have that!
Correct, Allison. Riccardo, thanks for letting us know
for not
sending anything too big by email again.
Allison
To give you some idea, average paper I wrote in ASCII in 4 pages long
is about 3K to 4K. Performance of regular modems dribbles along
about 1.5k or less for 14.4kps on usual bad day and 28.8 is bit
faster and most of time 33.6kps is about max in most places and
trying to get 52kps is like once in blue moon. Users who have Tx or
cable modem connection can move big things in a flash if time of day
is right otherwise we're in same group as modem users.
Jason D.
12:05 p.m.
;-) Clearing the snow from my glasses, I saw Allison J Parent typed:
<From: Riccardo <chemif(a)mbox.queen.it>
<Hmm, sorry but I thought that 77 k attachment file would not make any
<problem (it took 45 sec. to send it).
Another thing about attachments you need to keep in mind, sir Riccardo, is
that on the internet 7-bit info is the norm... 8-bit info (like pictures,
wave files, etc) need to be UUEncoded to be sent over the Internet, and
that will increase the size of the file as well.
This is a quote from my Eudora Pro software, which I have set to ignore
anything over 30K bytes:
"WARNING: The remainder of this message has not been transferred.
The estimated size of this message is 111930 bytes."
You're 77k attachment grew a bit! ;-)
Generally big is over 49999bytes! Most mailers that is
the threshold.
While some PC mailers will tolerate anything many do not and a lot of unix
based mailers don't like it either.
Here in the boonies, a lot of folks still have 14.4 or slower modems (4 or
5 people I know do e-mail at 2400 baud here!) and personally, I would say
that anything 35K or larger *after encoding* would be too large for this list.
If you have the technology to send something that big, you should have the
technology to put it on your web page, and just list the URL to it. That's
a very acceptable way to share pictures here, then folks who want to see
can spark up their Nutscrape or whatever bowzer they prefer.
<You could use the "skip big messages"
option that most mail program have
<Anyway I will refrain from sending attachements to this list in future.
not all mailers have that!
And even if the mailer did, some folks don't know that the option is
available!
Hope this helps,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
--
Roger Merchberger | If at first you don't succeed,
Programmer, NorthernWay | nuclear warhead disarmament should *not*
zmerch(a)northernway.net | be your first career choice.
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