On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Tim Gruene <t...@shelx.uni-ac.gwdg.de> wrote:
> I agree to this. > What are the actual reasons against attachments? > If one really has a slow network connection and cannot use IMAP instead of > POP3 > (if I understand correctly, with IMAP one does not need to download the > emails > until one actually wants to read them, but I may be wrong here, too), would > it > be a compromise to restrict image sizes to e.g. 500kB? Another reason is that some institutions still inflict email quotas on their users. I manage the phenixbb list (which is certainly smaller than ccp4bb) and I get occasional notifications from other servers that an account has been disabled because it exceeded the local quota. If some unfortunate university professor leaves for vacation for two weeks and doesn't check email the entire time, it won't take long to fill the inbox. I suspect whoever manages ccp4bb gets these notifications too. Personally, I keep this GMail account just for subscribing to lists - currently at 5% of quota. At least Coot outputs PNGs now - that cuts down the mean attachment size by, what, 90%? -Nat
