[vsnet-chat 3690] Fw: attachments

["Mike Simonsen" <mikesimonsen@mindspring.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Simonsen <mikesimonsen@mindspring.com>
To: <vsnet-chat@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp>; p.warhurst
<p.warhurst@auckland.ac.nz>
Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2000 9:37 AM
Subject: Re: [vsnet-chat 3687] attachments


> I guess I just don't understand the paranoia and griping about
attachments.
> What is it that sets people off about this? Is it fear of viruses or
> download time or what?
>
> Having a chart for a CV that is currently in outburst magically show up in
> my mailbox is like finding a present under the tree on Christmas morning.
I
> tried to piece one together last night and gave up because I couldn't come
> up with an acceptable sequence. Here we have an expert putting together
> sequences from the best photometry going, drawing up charts and sending
them
> to us for free and instead of thanking him the first response is negative.
>
> If you don't trust attachments delete the message before you open it or
run
> it through your virus checker. How much effort is that? As for sending it
to
> *another* vsnet list, it was sent to vsnet-sequence. Unfortunately, many
of
> the observers who actually make observations of these stars have
> unsubscribed to everything but obs, chat, outburst and alert out of
> frustration with the heavy traffic the other lists created. So now chat,
> alert or outburst is the only way to reach them.
>
> I'm not sure there is a way to make everyone happy, but for God's sake
let's
> not make another vsnet-whatever list!
>
> M. Simonsen
>

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