To Attach or Not Attach

[John Cottingham <jcott@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:18 AM 12/16/96 -0500, you wrote:
>MANHASSET  PRESS,   DEC. 19  ISSUE
>
>BK IN SO. BEACH, MIAMI TILL DEC 27
>

Bernardo, there are a couple of things about your posts that perhaps you 
haven't considered. I'm not being critical but constructive.

The use of extended CC: adds the list of recipients to the post...if you used 
the BCC: function, each recipient would still get the post but without the 
laundry list of 100 recipients being contained in the post. Your mail program 
would just substitute a different name on the To: line of each message.

I'm sure that you would like for list recipients to be able to read your 
attachments and also enable the 'gems', contained therein, to be found with the 
archive software. Neither options is available with the method you now use.

Sending a doc or for that matter any other file created with a particular word 
processor is useless to 98 percent of the subscribers of the parkinsn list. The 
internet comprises of folks using main frame, macs and pcs....attachments have 
to be read as text....without the use of the same word processor that created 
the file.

TO ATTACH OR NOT

The only time an attachment should be used is to attach a sound file, zip or 
picture to email. Other things like articles should be converted to ascii and 
be pasted into the body of the message....not attached.

Archive searches will then be able to scan your article for posterity...but it 
will not...if you attach it.






jcott@xxxxxxxxx      That man may last, but never lives,
                        Who much receives, but nothing gives;
HomeBoy #Parkinsons         Whom none can love, whom none can thank,--
                               Creation's blot, creation's blank.
John Cottingham           Thomas Gibbons (1720-1785): When Jesus dwelt.