[vsnet-chat 3692] getting attached...

[crawl@zoom.co.uk]

Okay, half a suggestion/thought follows...

you send your chart to sequence...

...you check for new mail and you get your email back via the exploder, I
presume, otherwise you can click on the ftp link at the vsnet site at
http://kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp/vsnet , follow the MAIL directory and look
under the relevant subdirectory, in this case sequence, and then you find
out what number it got give.

You then send a mail to chat that says:

 "a new chart for such and such is available at :

http://vsnet.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp/vsnet/Mail/vsnet-sequence/msg00039.html

via an attached JPEG"

or summat, where 39 just happens to be the number for the ES Dra chart,
which obviously changes as relevant.

There's often a bit of a time lag afore the vsnet http MonHArc archives
update, but in this way folk who don't use vsnet-sequence can be informed
about the availablility of a new chart for an outbursting object via
vsnet-chat in a mere 3 to 5 lines, and fairly quickly.

Though, let us not fool us-selves that this is a universal panacea... ...I
know of at least one person who doesn't subscribe to chat though they
subscribe to alert, and they probably don't subscribe to sequence either.
They'd probably also like this chart.

Meanwhile, sometimes images can be drastically reduced in size if they're
done as GIFs and reduced to 16 or 2 colours, and cropped or whatever,
instead of kept at full colour depth.

I recently attached a Tycho ep plot of 1.6kb size to chat cos I just
thought it was a waste to put it into the image gallery, with its fine
pictures, and didn't know where else to put it, and in fact it was in
direct response to a posting to chat anyway, so was relevant [honest].

So, could folk cope with attachments to chat if they were _only_ included
when _absolutely_ necessary/unavoidable, and if even then only if a ceiling
of say 4-5kb size [excluding mail size] was put on them [obviously if the
email is very big too this is still not going to be welcome].

This should lead to a reasonably infrequent usage of small attachments.

Finally, not everyone has their own website at which to store these things:
there's a lot of ISP flux in some countries, and email providers often have
to be changed, if not sworn at.

Cheers

John

John Greaves
England, UK

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