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From: Mike & Ben Crowl <[e-mail]>
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On 30-Mar-97, Eric Hyland wrote:




*Shit, here we go again! ;))*




> The subject of BIG FILES has come up again, so I would like to share
> my previous vote with you. first off BIG FILES don't bother me I can
> handle any thing throne at me. That having been said my vote was for a
> 20kB limit. Why ? Out of respect for people who do have a problem with
> BIG FILES. Why am I mentioning this ? Because I remember what happened
> the last time.

Which wasn't actually that long ago.. ;)

As far as being able to handle what is *thrown* at you.. it doesn't
matter that can handle, it matters that some people can't..

> By the way what was the results from the voting? I don't believe the
> numbers where ever posted.

I was the person who started the vote.. the question was:

"Should we have big files?"

>From the people who voted, it was 22 for, 6 against (as I remember).. the
votes never got posted BECAUSE, it was going to cause trouble deciding
whether to have big files, only  them.. =\

> Ok the point of this letter is To BIG FILE, or not to BIG FILE should
> not be the subject of this NEW discussion. What should it be? It should
> be about choosing a less restrictive minimum then 4kB, so even if BIG
> FILES are not the way we wont to go we don't have to be stuck with such
> a restrictive limit.

Nobody is stuck with a 4k limit.. this was just the opinion of ONE
person..

There is only one way we decided we could solve this problem, and that
was if you had something you wanted to send to the list, you asked who
wanted it, and ONLY sent to the people who replied.. otherwise, SOMEONE
complained about it..

Being someone who can recieve and send big files, this is annoying and I
know it will be annoying for you if you can do the same.. BUT, I think it
is the only fair way to do things..

> On this BIG FILES thing I am more interested in knowing how many
> people actually have a problem with receiving BIG FILES. You know we
> may have voted No BIG FILES out of respect for people who have a
> problem receiving BIG FILES, but there may not be any one on the list
> that has this problem.

No.. there are a few people with this problem.. from what I remember, it
was those who received mail through BBS's and things like that, that had
the trouble.  People with normal PPP/(C)SLIP or Shell connections didn't
have trouble..  (what's the bet someone will disagree with <that as well? ;)

I know that I'm not the administrator of this list, or anyone
particularly important, but it seems to me that too many people are
thinking only of *themselves*, which in the end causes arguments (I
should know, I'm probably the worst person at it..  ;)

There was also talk about putting stuff on Aminet.. this is a great
idea.. but, a lot of people can't don't have an FTP connection..
"Use FTP-Mail" you say.. most people don't know how or can't be bothered
doing it anyway..

If anyone wants, I can write an ARexx script for YAM, which will search
for a certain subject title, e.g.  "Send me AMCAF demo", and will add that
person's name to a list of addresses to send the file to..  if you would
rather do it by hand.. feel free..  ;)

If you want going to send big files to the list, we'll probably start to
lose valuable people from this list, which, now that I think about it,
isn't something I want.. so please, do it this way, and make this list a
happy place to write in once again..

 .. and to the person who was complaining about a measly 4kb, it's time
to upgrade from your 1200bps modem.. (BTW, this letter has probably reached
4kb by now, and if it hasn't it will once my siggy is on the end..  ;) )



Later all, thanks for reading..  and lets have some peace around here..
please?

Ben Crowl

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