Greetings. You will have seen the many emails, sent to this
CanberraBirds email list by me and others, about large attachments being
distributed with list emails.
This is not simply a breach of the list rules. It shows discourtesy to
other list subscribers. It is a genuine problem for subscribers who
access the list via mobile devices. The large attachments quickly use up
subscribers' monthly download limits.
In the past we have canvassed some options. One is to prohibit
attachments. So no photos, no google maps, no data graphs. This is the
usual approach taken with email lists like ours.
Another option, one that COG has looked into closely a couple of times
in the past and that is now on the table again, is to close down the
CanberraBirds email-based list and to move to a web forum arrangement
through which you need to visit a website using your browser to read
material that people want to distribute. Here is an example, the
Australian component of BirdForum:
http://www.birdforum.net/forumdisplay.php?f=399 .
No decision has yet been made, and CanberraBirds subscribers will be
consulted if changes are forced upon us by people continuing to send
large attachments.
So, if you value this email-based discussion and announcement list and
want it to continue in its present form, please stop sending large
attachments. Keep them below 100 kb.
If you don't know how to re-size photographs so that they are less than
100 kb in size, please ask me for advice, I am happy to assist.
Thank you - David
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David McDonald
Canberra Ornithologists Group email lists manager
1004 Norton Road, Wamboin, NSW 2620, Australia
Tel: (02) 6238 3706
Fax: (02) 9475 4274
Mobile: 0416 231 890
E-mail:
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