Mike - I'm curious about what prompted your original message asking for no
attachments. Have you had problems with viruses? Does your mail reader
find attachments problematic? I know mine does when I'm not in the office.
I'm on a number of groups that have banned attachments because too many
things have come through with viruses and folks inadvertently infected their
machines. I don't know that it's a problem on this group, tho.
I hesitated to even send this, knowing I'm going to get all of those "out of
office" messages in response. They drive me crazy!
Anne
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Anne Myers
Head of Technical Services
Boston University Law Library
765 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215
Ph: 617-353-8877 Fax: 617-353-5995
Email: amyers@bu.edu
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu [mailto:owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu]On
Behalf Of Krupka@WILDMANHARROLD.com
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 11:55 AM
To: law-lib@ucdavis.edu
Subject: RE: Attachments - Reply To Mike Yared's Posting
I totally agree. Whatever happened to the postpone function? If it is a
requirement by the employer that the out-of-office function be on, listserv
status should be changed.
With regard to the attachments, perhaps a short description of what it
contains (in the body of the message) would prove helpful for those who do
not wish to open them.
Karen Krupka
Wildman Harrold
225 W. Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60606
krupka@wildmanharrold.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Huttner [mailto:rshutt@netspace.net.au]
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 11:18 AM
To: law-lib@ucdavis.edu
Cc: Yared, Michael
Subject: Re: Attachments - Reply To Mike Yared's Posting
I cannot think of any good reason why *all* attachments should be banned on
this List. On many occasions I have found attachments to be very handy
indeed. Just as on many occasions I have found them - like Mike Yared - a
nuisance. Seems to me that any binding rule on this issue is likely to
fail. Perhaps all that is required is simply a request that all
List-contributors think twice before they add an attachment, and *only* do
so if it really is necessary and adds something of value. *And* that the
attachment be small - so as not to cause unnecessary inconvenience to the
e-mail systems of disinterested recipients. Frankly, I find the use of
auto-responders by many List-members infinitely more irritating than
attachments !! Every time I post anything to the List I get a minimum of a
dozen auto-responds telling me who is "out of town" and for how many days,
hours and minutes, and precisely who is deputising in her/his absence. As
if the average poster to a *List* could actually care less !! So - if we
are about to start banning things - and I am certainly not advocating such
- let's "kill all the auto-respnders first" (pace William Shakespeare) !!
Just my (at a very unfavourable exchange rate) Australian 2 cents worth !
Ronald S Huttner LL.B (Hons)
Barrister And Solicitor
Consultant And Trainer In Computer-Assisted Legal Research
Lecturer In Advanced Computerised Legal Research,
Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne (02.10.95 to 02.10.98)
"vidElex - See The Law" - http://videlex.com
rshutt@netspace.net.au (Principal E-Mail Address)
rshutt@pocketmail.com.au (Mobile)
Ph: (03) - 9509 - 7023 (Home/Business)
Ph: 0402 - 459 - 103 (Mobile)
"Ignorance of the law never prevented any lawyer from collecting his fee"
>Can LAW-LIB forbid attachments? I hope the listserv owner can change a way
>for someone who send a message to the list with an attachment, it will be
>rejected and returned to them. This means no attachments of any kind,
>including "virtual business cards", Word documents, and so forth. Also will
>not distribute HTML (web page) documents.
>
>Thank you.
>Mike Yared
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