At 01:55 PM 11/22/1999 -0000, Adrian Eyre wrote:
However, my idea is this. What if there was some sort of mechanism in place that stored the file in a different type of archive, and instead of mailing the file, it included a link to click on to pick up the file instead.
Good idea. Could it be generalised to allow all people on the mailing list to specify a maximum attachment size. All attachments below this are attached to the e-mail, and any larger are replaced with links. Or maybe as a total attachment size for each e-mail, rather than on an attachment by attachment basis.
Sure seems like it would be a useful feature. I'm mostly stuck on very slow lines, many times it's a long-distance call to get that much. I'd like to be able to defer getting attachments - pretty much ALL attachments - until I know at least I've got a toll-free connection, even if it's a slow one. Maybe there's not enough of us so "blessed" to be worth a change, though....