(meteorobs) Postimg Images to this List--Why Not?

[meteors at eclipse.net]

I'll take a shot at this answer.

One reason is that many of the users of this list have very expensive dial
up connections. 350 kb may not seem like much to you, but if it cost you a
quarter every time someone decided to post one, it might not be so.

It is also a security issue, since attachments can hide trojans, viruses,
and other malware.

Not everyone can afford full security packages.

It was decided early on to keep this an e-mail list so such users can
participate cheaply and safely.

As I said you are free to post a link to a map or any other attchment or
to let users contact you if they want things such as my Perseid excel 
charts.

It may not be as much of a problem as it once was, but when the list was
set up a decade ago it was quite prevelent for anything other than plain
ascii to not be readable by half the users on the list.

That's just my viewpoint, I'll let the head elf reply when he sees this.

Elf, Wayne too.



> I tried posting an image (embedded) awhile ago and it was stripped. I
> expected this. I believe this is unfortunate that images are not allowed
> here. I know this is not a newsgroup(NG), but I belong to a Corel NG
> that allows them. They are limited to something like 350K. In that case,
> it vastly improves communications in problem solving. In my test case, I
> tried to post a portion of the a Google map that gave some perspective
> to the geographical location the poster was referring to. I think that's
> very valuable to know, and I see no reason why images that might show
> equipment or meteor images should not be allowed, with some limitation
> on individual size and total number of images. Whether this can be done,
> I do not know. I think it should be given some consideration.
>
> --
>            Wayne Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
>
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