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Subject: Re: How long, is to long?
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 1997 09:26:42 -0800
First, many lists are set to reject a message larger than 20K. The list
owner may increase or decrease that size. AOL and Prodigy recipients
will have problems with larger posts, and the digest will probably crash
in both. AOL and long digests are just not getting along right now.
You could break them up and send them. Those of us with unlimited mail
capacity and unlimited access are not going to complain, those with
limited or per minute/hour charges may. You can't please everyone. You
will get repies from those who think everything should be permitted
encouraging you to post, some of the second group will not voice their
objections unless the amount of posting gets to them later. Again, can't
please everyone. You will have to use your own judgement based on their
size.
You can abstract them and offer to send the whole document as an
attachment to anyone who wants them. Of course you already know you
never send attachments to a list. Two pieces of advice if you send them
as attachments.
1. Convert the fonts to "curier" or "curier new" and make sure the
columns, if any, line up the way you want them to.
2. Convert to ascii text.
If you do not do #1, columns will not line up correctly in a text
document because most word processing fonts do not take up exactly the
same space. If you do not do #2, many who receive the document will not
be able to open it.
Curier is a screen font which may not print out on the recipient's
computer. Curier new will.
Hopes this helps more than confuse the issue.
--
Robert L. George ------ Surprise, Arizona
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