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  • 1.  Filters for attachments

    Posted 11-24-1999 13:42
    You can set Outlook Express' Inbox Assistant to filter incoming messages.  One of the filters is size related.  Messages over a size you specify can be deleted from the server (i.e. not downloaded).  They can also trigger an automatic reply message to the sender.  You could say "Message too large to be received.  To communicate with me, please restrict future messages to less than xx Kb."  However, neither of these steps will directly act to reduce congestion on the net -- that can only be done by the sender of the message.  We all have responsibilities.
     
    And a word about sensitivities and language: some of the nicest words, used in the nicest of ways, can be just as insulting and upsetting than some of the worst words used in the worst way.  Would you rather be told you had an Oedipus complex or that you were a m--f--?  It means the same, the latter simply tells you more about the sender's state of mind.  And if you've spent your working life relying on and using email and IP, being told to drag yourself into the future could be very insulting.  Think about it.  Personally, I'd rather be told I was a 'pissant' (since it's not a word in my vocabulary and I don't know its meaning) than that I didn't know what I was talking about by someone who should know better. 
     
    Should we try to boost our personal performance by restricting the ability of the medium we all rely on to perform?  Ensure that we use all the bells and whistles while slowing everything down for everyone else?  It's like driving a tank, so we can get to our destination regardless despite the damage we do to the road; a little bit of consideration from all concerned will make sure we get there, even in a mini.  And it smacks of anarchy and selfishness.
     
    The moderator of this list (and others) has requested that attachments not be used, that original messages be removed when replying except where essential (you don't repeat everything else in a conversation, or enclose copies of all previous correspondence with your letters, do you?), and that messages be sent in 'plain text' not email.
     
    There are rules.  They do need to be followed.  If that upsets some people, they can leave the list or start their own.  If it restricts their ability to communicate, I feel sorry for them.
     
    Regards,
     
    Bevis E.


  • 2.  Filters for attachments

    Posted 11-24-1999 14:33
    And a word about sensitivities and language: some of the nicest words, used
    in the nicest of ways, can be just as insulting and upsetting than some of
    the worst words used in the worst way. Would you rather be told you had an
    Oedipus complex or that you were a m--f--?

    ROFL (rolling on floor laughing). Yes, indeed! Following all the
    conversations regarding
    leadership I found the demonstration of leadership styles reflected in the
    various posts
    on how this listserv "should" be led most interesting. Language choice is
    obviously a
    critically important element of leadership. (Now, didn't I say that
    nicely).

    Additionally, a key component of netiquette is "tone" in posts. One of the
    advantages of
    this format is that we have the chance to pause between "saying" something
    and actually
    sending it out for all to see. A chance to cool down, think twice, re-read
    and consider
    what it might be like to be on the receiving end of our words. If it is
    worth saying today,
    it will still be a smart thing to say tomorrow... and I might think of a
    more effective way to
    say it, too. :)

    There are rules. They do need to be followed. If that upsets some people,
    they can leave the list or start their own. If it restricts their ability
    to communicate, I feel sorry for them.

    And this says it all. Not what we can do, but what it has been agreed that
    we will do. Several
    people have given suggestions on how to make information available, without
    using attachments,
    that are within the rules of the listserv. It isn't that the information
    can't be communicated, only
    in how it is allowed to be done within the rules. :)

    Happy Thanksgiving, all .... shall we discuss communications and
    leadership? (ducking for cover)


  • 3.  Filters for attachments

    Posted 11-24-1999 15:07
    On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Bevis England wrote:
    <among other things>

    The moderator of this list (and
    others)
    has requested that attachments not be used, that original messages be
    removed
    when replying except where essential (you don't repeat everything else in
    a
    conversation, or enclose copies of all previous correspondence with your
    letters, do you?), and that messages be sent in 'plain text' not
    email.

     

    There are rules.  They do need to be
    followed.  If that upsets some people, they can leave the list or
    start
    their own.  If it restricts their ability to communicate, I feel
    sorry for
    them.



    Bev,

    You may not be aware that you are posting in HTML.

    Some folks have a mailer that does this automatically unless turned off.

    Some mailers also add tag lines at attachements. Sometimes this cannot be
    turned off.

    bemusedly out here in the land of UNIX

    alice

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