A recent message, forwarded from another source, had an HTML attachment
(duplicating the message text) that quadrupled the message's size over
what it would have been in just plain text.
Novia's disk space is limited. Therefore, please refrain from sending
so-called "Rich Text Format," or "HTML" E-mail, or messages with a lot
of extraneous MIME attachments, to the SACMARC mailing list.
Common-sense exceptions to this would be messages that contain images,
photos, Word files, or PDF documents. This reduces our storage demands
for message archiving, and in some cases, can ensure delivery of your
message versus bouncing when disk space quotas are exceeded.
I figure that most subscribers here are using some version of Outlook or
Outlook Express. The following site:
http://www.expita.com/nomime.html
has a lot of good advice, and specific step-by-step instructions, to
avoid sending non-plain-text E-mail from most popular E-mail software
packages, not just Outlook. In some cases, your E-mail software may be
configurable to send just plain-text by recipient (so that you are free
to send rich attachment E-mail to other recipients who would welcome
them). I would be available to answer questions about configuring your
specific E-mail software.
I will also look into setting up filtering on the Novia end to
automatically strip out attachments such as duplicated HTML versions of
message text, TNEF, and WINMAIL.DAT files to help conserve disk space.
Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.
-- Paul W. Schleck owner-sacmarc@sacmarc.orgSACMARC Mailing List Owner
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