Philip’s suggestion about screening
is a good one for many purposes. However, in my case I am running a business
and Outlook is on all day, routinely sweeping and downloading every 10 mins
while I work. I commonly get double figures of messages every day, leaving
aside spam (which CloudMark™ dumps into a spam folder) and this site
which I direct into a separate folder to examine a couple of times a day.
Hence my concern about large attachments
which can sometimes really choke up my download processes.
That said, I really appreciated Ian Fraser
posting the reminder and I hope we can stick to this without hurting anyone’s
feelings. I know people who post always do so with the best of intentions. It is
just that sometimes it is easy to forget, if your server is (e.g.) a public sector
dept with fast broadband, that something like 4 MB might unintentionally cause
somebody else real grief. J
Stephen
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Dr Stephen Mugford
Managing Director
QQSR
PO Box 12
Gungahlin, ACT 2912,
AUSTRALIA
Ph:
+61 2 6242-1008
Mob:
+61 411 466640
From:
Philip Veerman [
Sent: Saturday, 25 August 2007
5:11 PM
To: Phyl Goddard; 'stephen
mugford';
Subject: large attachments
I have developed the habit of looking at the e-mails
through a mail reader first, without retrieving all the messages. That way I
delete spam, most messages with big attachments and things I'm not interested
in, before receiving them. As for the ‘blind kookaburra’ attachment, my attitude is if
someone just writes about a ‘blind in one eye kookaburra’ or
whatever it is, I am willing to just believe it without needing to see a photo.
I request people to use a way to compress large attachments or consider
carefully about that it may clog up someone's system for 20 minutes, whilst
being received and consider whether they will appreciate that.
, Whitworth, Benjamin - BRS
