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I agree with alomost everything Ray says, esp re Eskimo and JimO. I think
it was Omega Man who suggested using e-groups for any large files, archives
etc. That seems like an option worth pursuing. My exper;ience with the
Advanced GET list was fair in terms of gif's and other works of art. It
does take up a lot of bandwidth.
Regardless, I too would be willing to pay to support this list. As they
say, one good trade or avoiding one bad trade easily pays for the service.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Gurke" <Ray_Gurke@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 11:07 AM
Subject: Re: Time to move this list to E-Groups
> I personally feel that HUGE email attachments are a blight on dialup
> users -- hey, but that's only one man's opinion who's been around since
the
> Internet crawled out of the swamp. If the majority of the list _really_
> wants to be able to send attachment greater than 15 meg, I'm sure we could
> work something out with Eskimo. For example, they could host this list on
an
> alternate mail server that allowed large attachments. This would require
> addition resources from Eskimo -- I personally would be willing to
> contribute a nominal fee for this extended service if it's important to
the
> majority of list subscribers. How many subscribers are on this list? I'd
> venture to say it would only cost us < $5 a year, per subscriber to
cover
> the additional costs. We could even do it on a voluntary basis. Jim...
would
> this be a workable solution? I'm willing to kick in $25 right now. I'm
sure
> enough other folks would make a voluntary contribution to make this
happen.
> I personally feel some loyalty and gratitude to Eskimo for providing this
> list service for free for a number of years. I get a hell of a lot of
value
> from the posts on this list and the service Eskimo provides -- a lot more
> than $5, $10 or $25. FWIW, Eskimo is a regional ISP that actually needs to
> take in $ at the end of the day to continue to provide quality service to
> its customers and pay their employees. The free service they have provided
> over the years has been a contribution to our little "world". I prefer to
> keep the list with Eskimo if we can work out a reasonable solution.
>
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