I have seen, in the past, that the argument of attachments in the mails/reply is always under debate and I understand both parties, the one that is pro-attachments because we are "visual" in the senwe that an image can explain better than tons of words sometimes or for particularly difficult patterns to visualize, particular problems which can't be resolved with proper data posting and so on, and the other one which has designed the mailing list this way, probably to avoid scams/viruses/etc...
So I want to make my proposal: why don't we create a virtual space in the clouds (e.g. dropbox), shared between the Rietvelders/crystallographers where the attachments will be put according to specific arguments (and date), and moderated in turn by few rietvelders (who can and want to do this, nothing is imposed) to erase data every month (or so) old data previous an email remainding when old data will be deleted? This will also eliminate or reduce the needs for hyperlinks. I hope not to be crucified and especial y I ask Alan (who created this list) an opinion on that.
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