> Hmmm, current disk price is $0.05 per meg and falling rapidly.
>
> 81 K of attachments is taking up "valuable space" worth $$0.00396 (US). Thats
> right, 4 tenths of a cent. Significant? You decide.

With a 14.4K modem, 71K of data will take over two minutes to transfer.
Not a huge amount, but enough to be irksome; over long distance, that could
easily cost $0.10 or more (e.g. calling from Monroe, WI to the nearest ISP
in Madison, WI).  Nothing to break the bank, but irksome nonetheless.

For text-based lists, I generally avoid binaries if they're over 1K or so;
other people have their 'mental limit' at about 60K/file.  Unless the PicList
supports options to allow subscribers to automatically reject binaries from
postings, I think the smaller limit (perhaps stretching it to 2-4K) is better.

Private e-mail, of course, is a whole different ballgame; I've sent and
received multi-meg files via e-mail but only when requested.