Jerry Wayne Decker wrote:
> Hi ryb et al!
>
> Because of the new server hosting the KeelyNet list and based on
> discussions with Dan about uploading images and attachments to the
> database, he assured me it wouldn't be a problem with space.
>
> As a result of this, I removed the file size and attachment
> limitations in the guidelines.
>
> Now, I personally don't think it is a good idea to send in large files
> which should more appropriately be privately forwarded to those
> interested.
>
> Nothing is more time consuming than picking up your mail and getting a
> host of unsolicited emails with attachments that take forever to
> download. I just want to get the gist of the messages and move on.
>
> Same for capturing an entire page from a URL that is currently online
> and which only would need a short section to clarify what was being
> said.
>
> To my understanding this is making people read material that they
> might not be interested in by shoving it in their mailbox.
>
> At least with limits, what is posted to the 150+ people on the list
> will be emails containing only a synopses of the information hopefully
> with additional links that let people find out more if they are so
> inclined.
>
> So, as a matter of courtesy, I think people appreciate informative
> posts with urls, relevant excertps and an offer of additional info
> should they be interested.
>
> Perhaps I should add that to the Guidelines as netiquette?
>
> ---ryb wrote:
> >
> > Posting a mime format in mailing list that can usually only accept
> TEXT
> > is well,deplorable...Sur wish that people would reconsider this option
> > and just say that those that want it,they will e0mail to them the
> > required infos...
> >
> > Any altrnative ways have been suggested to divert coruse of
> Hurricanes(I
> > am thibnkign of Bonnie);also ways to harness the energy produced by
> > such a hurricane.I think I read tht Reich and Tesla(?) did some
> research
> > into that areas ?
> >
> > I remember seeing in a French magazien-it as a publication for
> > youngsters,called SPIROU, I believe,about 40 yrs ago,around 1956,at
> the
> > time of the International Expo being held at Bruxelles,Belgium..In any
> > event,that chap in his early 30's(?) was receiving TV stations from
> all
> > over the world..Remmebr,NO satellite up then except the infamous
> Sputnik
> > put up in 1957 by th Russian followe by an American one a few months
> > later.The 1st Communication satellite was TELSTAR put up in 62 or 67
> > ?(in the early yearss of the Vietnam conflict infos about the war were
> > put on a plane and sent to the US...images thus arrived about 12-18hrs
> > later on our TV screen).
> >
> > Okay,sorry if I digressed a bit..Hence this chap.a sort of hobbyist
> > electrician was able to get TV reception from mnay foreign
> > countries-,simply by putting up an antenna and then
> > have it zizag in the sky until he was able to get reception fo
> other TV
> > stations..His antenna was thus capting TV waves.It was about 20-30
> feet
> > high, experts stated that it was impossible yet journalists had taken
> > photos of him receiving TV stations from Asia,America,etc..This chap
> > could not explain it..The article concluded that one day every one
> would
> > be able to get TV programs from all over the world..The hobbyist was
> > trying to figure out a way to standardize his research and develop a
> > commercial antenna..
> > I remember reading later(in 62-63 ?) that a sort of working prototype
> > was in fact made but that commercial interest in the device was
> > mitigated and then satellite TV transmission began in around 67 and
> the
> > Belgium Ministry of technology(?) had tried to interest the
> > industry..Guess it was never commercialized,if ever,on a grand
> scale...I
> > wonder if BIG $$$ vested interests did not stifle that
> > discovery/technology ?
> > If some pundits are right-this fall,micro-meteorites are supposed
> to
> > create havoc with the numerous satellites in space and maybe as they
> > are disabled,that technology will resurface once again ?
> >
> > Yours,ryb....
> >
> >
> >
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