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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000030.txt from 2003/02

From: "cflat" <cflat@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Re: please--no attachments
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 13:38:53 -0500

This message is just absolutely hilarious...

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Rich Gordley <rgordley@-----.net>
Reply-To: doublereed-l@-----.edu
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 12:20:21 -0600

>
>
>Most replies to this topic have assumed that anyone that can't
see the
>attachments must be a computer doofus with stone-age software.
>
>In reality, those of use that receive the digest receive the
attachments as
>code imbedded in the text of the digest in a form that, while not
>impossible to decode, takes far more effort than looking at ANY
picture is
>worth. It is NOT our mail client at fault, it is how the
doublereed list
>handles the digest.
>
>Furthermore, I have interests other than double reeds, many of
them in
>fact, and if I were to receive individual emails from all of the
lists I am
>on, I would be seriously inconvenienced by the time needed to
deal with
>them. By using the digest form, I can quickly look at the table
of
>contents and check out only the messages I am interested in.
>
>So it does no good to tell me my email client is antiquated, and
it will do
>no good to tell me to receive the list in other than digest form.
>
>Other email lists DO routinely strip attachments, not so much for
the
>convenience of the readers, but because the single largest source
of virus
>attacks on individual PCs is through email attachments. I know
we have
>been down the road of "why can't attachments be stripped?"
before, the
>answer being that the doublereed list software can't do this. So
in
>actuality it is not the antiquated software of the users of the
list that
>can't deal with attachments, it is the mailing software used by
doublereed
>itself.
>
>Rich Gordley
>
>Bassoon, Des Moines Community Orchestra
>http://www.desmoinescommunityorchestra.org
>
>

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