[CRS_META] declined: crsociety - large pdf attachment

[jwwright]

I receive pdf's on occasion from Al Pater, directly. It
could also be handled on a want to know basis.
A 1 meg file does take a while.
Of course the best way is to point to it.

Regards.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim C." <crsociety at diethacker.com>
To: <crs_meta at lists.calorierestriction.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 11:10 AM
Subject: [CRS_META] declined: crsociety - large pdf
attachment


> April, below, referenced and attached a large PDF which
our
> software doesn't automatically reject (maybe it should
...).
>
> Anyway it was a 1 MB file which, IMO, I thought was
excessive
> compared to most of our emails.  It would only take a few
> minutes on dial-up and I don't know the percentage of
dial-up
> users.  Although that is not very excessive, it could lead
to
> unsubscribes/complaints.
>
> Another poster was asking about CRS hosting files (this is
> Alex with the large powerpoint presentation he authored).
> Maybe we could have an area that is not linked* and
protected
> with a password/captcha and a "no robots" HTML meta tag
> etc.  Of course, the goal is not to circumvent copyrights
> but to distribute by a means other than mass email.
>
> -Tim C.
>
>
>
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> >
> > Subject:
> > Fwd: Grazia Article From: April
> > Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 07:05:52 -0800 (PST)
> > To: CR at lists.calorierestriction.org