Hi Frank- No flames, just hope to clear this up. Your thoughts seem to be based on a common misunderstanding of the root problem. The problem is not about file size or server storage. The issue is that email list software automatically archives messages and attachments are not archived. Alan is not being a “cheapskate”; the mail list software, Sympa, doesn’t have the capability to archive anything other than text.
The policy of not allowing attachments is all about letting people in the future have the whole message. The archives only save the text so allowing attachments undermine the very essence of having an archive. Note that this is not unique to the Rietveld list. It is common to both the Sympa software used for this list as well as many others. More modern solutions exist, but would require someone to volunteer a lot more of their time to work. In the end, many people will read a message, but only one person writes the message. Email lists ask the email author to take the responsibility to put in a little extra time by creating links to their attachments so that the many people reading later may see the message. Regards- David David Elbert Earth and Planetary Sciences Olin Hall Johns Hopkins University 3400 N. Charles St Baltimore, MD 21218 (410) 516-5049 elb...@jhu.edu > On Jul 14, 2015, at 11:48 AM, May, Frank <frank.l....@umsl.edu> wrote: > > Greetings from HOT St. Louis, MO. > > I find it silly to discuss inclusion of a 64K image in email. In the early > days (1970s) of useful scientific computing, we said, "core [memory/computing > space] is gold;" we wrote our own programs; large programs were 50K. We have > made progress. Our computers use OS which measure in the gigabits; > memory/computing space is in the tens of gigabits; storage is measured in > multiple terabytes. > > How is it a server in 2015 cannot handle 64 KILObytes in an email attachment? > > Flame away! > > Frank May > Research Investigator > University of Missouri - St. Louis > XRD since 1972 > > PS: I removed all the preceding emails except the most recent - in the > concern to save bandwidth !!! > > From: rietveld_l-requ...@ill.fr <mailto:rietveld_l-requ...@ill.fr> > [rietveld_l-requ...@ill.fr <mailto:rietveld_l-requ...@ill.fr>] on behalf of > Cline, James Dr. [james.cl...@nist.gov <mailto:james.cl...@nist.gov>] > Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2015 10:08 AM > To: Alan Hewat; David Elbert > Cc: Fabrizio Guzzetta; Young, Lindsay Kay; rietveld_l@ill.fr > <mailto:rietveld_l@ill.fr> > Subject: RE: Obtaining a silicon standard wafer > > Hi all, > > The plot was generated for inclusion in a paper I wrote originally for the > yet-to-be-published Volume H of the International Tables for Crystallography. > Due yet another delay in the publication of Vol H, it is due to be published > in the Journal of Research at NIST very shortly (it may go into Vol H as well > sometime next year). Once this is done it will be available online for > consumption. It is in the final stages of review; if you would like a > preprint, send me an email.
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