> The piclist list guide is here:
> http://www.piclist.com/techref/listguide.htm
>
> and says, as point 9,
> ----------
> If you have a new application, graphic, or whatever that takes up more
> than 1K you would like to share with everyone on the List, please don't
> send it as an attachment in a note to the List. Instead, either indicate
> you are have this amazing piece of work and tell people that you have it
> and where to request it (either to you directly or to a web server
> address). Many listservers, if a large file is received may
> automatically delete (thrown into the "bit bucket") it and you may or
> may not get a message telling you what happened.
>
> If you don't have a web page of your own or one you can access,
> requesting somebody to put it on their web page or ftp server is
acceptable.
> ----------
>
> The long standing policy is that attachments, HTML mail, etc are not
> acceptable.  The admins are pretty forgiving about it, but I don't think
> people understand that we are being given bandwidth to run the list from
> MIT, on the order of 9GB/month (IIRC, I did the calculations awhile
> ago).  /Each/ 1k message gets duplicated and consumes 2MB of bandwidth,
> nevermind the much larger messages and attachments that get sent out as
> well.

I get it 1k * 2000 members = 2Mb.  Correct?

I can understand the concern, but I sure don't get the method.  Going by the
number of attachments posted to the list, I would venture to guess that
over-quoted message replies amount to at least 100 - 1000 times the storage
and bandwidth consumed by attachments.  It seems to me that the biggest
waste of space goes to over-quoted text and the incredible stacking piclist
signature lines attached by the list server.

Just my observations

michael brown

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