Remember, if you use text, your messages look great on all readers. It is never appropriate to post binary file attachments or UUEncoded files to the list. It is now fairly universally accepted that one should not send unsolicited attachments to a listserv like this, especially when there is an easy process for posting images on the web already set up. For illustrations and larger text documents there are on this website the illustration page and the discussion papers page . Early 2000 there was a discussion about this subject.
Many computer systems have problems with large attachments where the problem is in the downloading.
It is impossible to expect some list members to be satisfied with the demand to simply delete unwanted attachments. B. A large fraction of the list consists of Americans and other fortunates who enjoy free connections with high bandwidth and modern machines to run sophisticated mail programs. They pay for every byte they download, and they download it at speeds as low as 2400 baud. All e-mail viruses are spread through attachments. People trying to break records are usually hoax messages, or these messages are left over from years ago and are still floating around the Internet in email chains.