Image attachments and dialup (was Re: whats the deal with fire fox)

[Matthew East]

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Hello,

* Peter Garrett:
> On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:29:21 +0200
> "Dimitri Mallis" <dimitri.mallis at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
>> [Screenshot-System Monitor.png  image/png (191.8KB)]
> 
> Speaking of resource hogs...
> 
> Not everyone is on broadband. *Please don't attach screenshots like this*
> - put them on a server/pastebin and link them, or at the very least
> compress/resize them in the gimp. In any case, what you wanted to show
> was text, and could have been copy pasted from, for example, the
> "top"command,  with an explanation.
> 
> You might think 192KB is trivial - do the maths on it: at 5KB/sec, how long
> would your mail take to download? What would happen if everyone did this ?
> 
> As it happens, I now have a decent connection, but when I was on dialup
> this kind of thing drove me crazy!

Oh goodness me. The limit on the mailing list should certainly exclude
these sorts of attachments. Can the list administrators please make sure
that is in place?

Matt
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