When using the list:
-
"Reply" will send to just
the individual who posted.
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"Reply to All" sends to the
entire list, AND to the individual.
You could choose to provide much nicer traffic management
if, in your responses, you remember to delete extra names
in
the
"To:" field, unless you have an earthshattering reason
why you want to make sure the individual gets two responses.
Yes, we could have set up the "Reply" differently,
but we chose to conform to the standard being used by the
biggest Chrysler car club mailing list in existence, the
MML. By
the way, if you're not familiar with it, or not familiar
with mailing lists in general, they have a lengthy but
wonderful Etiquette
page of their own. Much of their ideas are equally
valid here: please don't send chain letters, virus
warnings, and so on.
Messages have lots of extra garbage in them...
Again, you can help. When you reply to a post, please
trim out everything from the previous post except what
is necessary to keep the
thread of conversation clear.
Do we have archives available? How about digests?
Not at this time, sorry. Building a reliable email transmission
system was the top priority.
Help! I can't send my picture!
There is a size limit-- message size and photo size together
cannot be more than about 75KB. This is to keep email sizes
reasonable, especially for those people on modems. And
to be honest, there is no reason your picture
cannot tell a story in 30KB or less, if you size it accordingly.
Unfortunately, today's 4- and 5-megapixel cameras
do not produce small images, so you'll
have to use image manipulation software to condense them.
(If you try to send something too big, your message
will not get through. But you won't get an error, either.
I'm working on that problem.)
Here are some general guidelines: since most people have
a screen about 800 pixels wide, some of which is used
up by the overhead of the Web browser window, your picture
can easily be only 5-600 pixels wide and look
like
it's
filling
a
large portion of the screen. (In fact, most of the photos
elsewhere on this Web site are less than 3-400
pixels wide and are still quite viewable.) Use image manipulation
software to make your picture as small (pixel size) as
you reasonably
can. Then use the highest JPG compression (sometimes called
"lowest quality") that will still render the result usable,
when you save the file. You'll be surprised how small you
can make those files.
I can't figure out my camera software enough to do that!
Yea, I know. Neither can lots of other people. Stay tuned...
Over at my day job at Stretched
Out Software, we've designed a
very simple image sizing program, due to be released
soon. That's all it does, scale the image and set the JPG
compression.
Because for most people, that's all they need. I'll update
this page when it's ready. -
Erik |