[Imc-outreach] how to deal with PDF sharing

[Sascha Meinrath]

imc outreach is a small group, and we do need to be able to share posters, 
flyers, etc.  i would just up the file size limit and if folks have 
problems you can just blame it all on me.

--sascha

At 12:58 PM 05/22/01 Tuesday, Zachary C.Miller wrote:
>I noticed just now that Cope tried to send some PDFs to this list but
>they got caught up in moderation because they were too big. Since they
>were both too big and very old I just rejected them.
>
>How does this group want me to deal with this.
>
>a) Large attachments are a pain to deal with for some people whose
>mailers don't support attachments well.
>
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>b) Large attachments make downloading mail over a dial up VERY slow
>and angers some people.
>
>c) Attachments are an easy way to share draft documents.
>
>d) Normally it would be a good idea to just convert to text before
>sending to a list to avoid attachment issues (this is what I always
>suggest for meeting minutes) but with publications that have important
>layout this is harder.
>
>Solutions:
>
>I could up the file size limit so that large attachments go through to
>the list automatically and those who get mad be damned.
>
>I could set up a sandbox space on my web server where anyone could
>upload a PDF or other file and then just email out the URL rather than
>the whole document.
>
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