Netiquette (Was: Re: Squirrelmail and Courier)

[Asheville Joe]

I'm on dialup and if someone really needs to post a screen shot or other 
graphic to get a point across, it doesn't bother me as long as it's once 
in a while - and people have the sense to chop it out of replies so it 
doesn't get sent multiple times.

Joe

Mark T. Valites wrote:

>On 29 Sep 2003, Cyber Source wrote:
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>>It might be hard or impossible to send a url if they have no server,
>>etc. I would suggest to the people that see an attachment and
>>don't/can't download it, not too open it at all. That file was only
>>116k.
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>This isn't the first time I've commented on an attachment sent to the
>list. Even at 116k, a list member stuck on dial-ip, who is using pop is
>FORCED to download the image, even if they have no interest in viewing it.
>Multiply 116k by the number of list members of list members, and suddenly
>it's not such a small number.
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>RFC 1855 - Netiquette Guildelines provides further suggestions and
>probably offers a better wording that what I have suggested.
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>http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html
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>-Mark
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