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This "attachments" topic has been a powerful discrimmintor.

It has enabled those who are "self-oriented" and those who are
"others-oriented" to identify themselves to the list.

Maybe a compilation of the responses would make a good lesson for
management education and development.

Jack Ring
Innovation Management
32712 N. 70th St., Snottsdale, AZ 85262-7143
Office) 480-488-4615, Cell) 602.369.4615, Fax) 480-488-4616
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. (Walter Lippman)

Jack, you hit this one right on the nose.

On 26 Nov 99, at 8:45, Jack Ring wrote:

> This "attachments" topic has been a powerful discrimmintor.
>
> It has enabled those who are "self-oriented" and those who are
> "others-oriented" to identify themselves to the list.
>
> Maybe a compilation of the responses would make a good lesson for
> management education and development.
>
> Jack Ring
> Innovation Management
> 32712 N. 70th St., Snottsdale, AZ 85262-7143
> Office) 480-488-4615, Cell) 602.369.4615, Fax) 480-488-4616
> Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. (Walter Lippman)


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Hi Everyone.

Being on aol, I am somewhat sheltered from the problems that attachments
cause. I appreciate the dialogue about the various consequences that the
different email programs produce, and would have to conclude that the
interests of the majority far outweigh my abilty to choose when to download
or not.

I do have a question.. how is it that this choice doesn't exist in other
email programs ?? Do attachment automatically get downloaded when the mail is
opened ??

Judi

On 27 Nov 99, at 0:16, Judi Baumbach wrote:

> I do have a question.. how is it that this choice doesn't exist in other
> email programs ?? Do attachment automatically get downloaded when the mail
> is opened ??

My bet is since most of us haven't used all the programs around, it
would be hard to say. Generally attachments sent, let's say to my
mailbox (along with mail) will sit in my mailbox at my ISP until I
download them. But they seem to be integral to the messages. I
could do a selective download of mail, but that adds steps and
times to the process. And I'd have to scan the messages in one
step, then download what I want in another, then delete (if that's
possible) in yet another. And, I'd have to do it by size, since I can't
tell when there are attachments.

Regardless, they sit at the ISP, and that's a major problem. Some
people (and this applies to me, I think, or used to), work with ISP's
that impose a size limit on the mailbox, let's say 1 megabyte.
Once that's reached bad things happen...either the mail box rejects
posts if there's no space (and it goes into nevernever land), or it
may do other strange things, like require me to log in via the shell
to clean up the mess (that happened once).

The risk increases for people who only pick up their mail
occasionally, since attachments and/or large emails accumulate.
Or for people who travel (like myself, and I presume many others
on the list).

If you've ever gotten a "mailbox full" message, that's the cause.

And, often our mailbox limits aren't under our own control. Further,
several internet access plans are metered, either in time, or in
bytes. Cable modem owners here have a limit for transfer. After
that, they pay, so unwanted large emails can cost people money.
Second, some plans offer x hrs. for x dollars. So, if one is on one
of them, and has to spend 1 hour downloading junk, then that bites
into the time (I will eventually be switching my account to one of
those). Again, if you go over the allotted quote, it costs and
sometimes pretty big time.



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