Re: sending large articles to pen-l

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

I thought that it was okay to translate html files into txt files and to post the latter to pen-l...

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Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine




> -----Original Message-----
> From: paul phillips [mailto:phillipsp@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 9:32 AM
> To: PEN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PEN-L] sending large articles to pen-l
> 
> 
> Michael,
> 
> But on the other hand, if you or others just send a url, many 
> of us just
> delete the message and never follow it up.  I for one never 
> follow up a
> url -- it is too time consuming and sometimes proves 
> fruitless. If this
> list were to become just a list of urls, I would probably log off.  It
> is much easier to just delete any article that I am not interested in.
> 
> Paul Phillips
> 
> Michael Perelman wrote:
> 
> >Please try not to send large articles to the list -- like I 
> did yesterday.
> >It is better just to send the url.
> >
> >Large articles cause several problems.
> >
> >They fill up mailboxes for people with limited space.
> >They take up a lot of space on Hans' server.
> >People outside of the US with expensive dial up connections 
> may have to
> >pay a lot to download ....
> >--
> >Michael Perelman
> >Economics Department
> >California State University
> >Chico, CA 95929
> >
> >Tel. 530-898-5321
> >E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
> >
> >
> >
>