[TAG] English->American dictionary

Mike Orr mso at oz.net
Wed Sep 28 21:30:52 MSD 2005


Rick Moen wrote:

>Quoting Mike Orr (mso at oz.net):
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>>[The images are dated 1998 because that's when I scanned the photos, but 
>>they were taken in 1995.]
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>Mike, your posting was held in the moderation queue on account of that
>attachment, that caused it to be more than twice this mailing list's
>maximum message size of 40kB.  
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>It would be better in the future, if possible, to put such files in a
>directory reachable via ftp or http, and then post the URL instead of
>sending the attachment in-line -- for lots of reasons, including some
>subscribers having less bandwidth to spare than you and I are used to.
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>We could of course change the value from the Mailman default of 40kB,
>but then the question becomes what's a better dividing line and why.
>The usually recommended Unix-ey remedy, instead, is as above.
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No, the limit makes sense.  I normally put such files on my website for 
people to snap up.  I just didn't want to commit to leaving my computer 
on this time.







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