[ELECTRON] Beginners Programming

Kyle Gordon kyle at lodge.glasgownet.com
Mon Apr 22 10:34:37 UTC 2013


I'd agree with this. Keeping the mailing list attachment management
in-house preserves the integrity of this tiny bit of the internet, and
detaches it from the transient nature of personal data stored within
Dropbox/box.net/etc

Kyle

On 22 April 2013 09:48, Kenny Duffus <kenny at duffus.org> wrote:
> On Monday 22 Apr 2013 09:38:01 Martin McGrath wrote:
>> For those having difficulty with the attachments, they have not been
>> blocked or lost.
>> The mailing list software strips and stores them and provides a hyperlink
>> to them at the end of the email.
>> This is so people on the list don't get an inbox full of attachments they
>> may not be interested in.
>>
>> Perhaps a better approach would be to share documents via dropbox or
>> something, and provide a link within the email.
>>
>
> I'd suggest that it is better to use the automatic hosting of attatchments by
> the list software as it means if at some point in the future someone is
> reading through the archive and comes accross something that interests them
> the attatchment will still be there where as external links often disapear
> later on
>
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>
> Kenny MM0ZUN
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