About a change of host...
Mary Sue Ittner (Fri, 21 Apr 2017 07:08:28 PDT)

On 4/21/2017 6:04 AM, David Pilling wrote:

When this list was started many years ago, the decision was made not to
allow images. At that time attachments were often the sources of viruses
and we couldn't prevent that from happening. Also there were a lot of us
who were on dial up and when we'd receive large images, we'd have to go
away, sometimes for hours, while those images were being downloaded. And
some people had limited storage on their email accounts and didn't want
it to be filled with images that they might not have been interested in
receiving. On other lists those people who did not want to receive
images would unsubscribe. Image lists were created for all those people
who just wanted to post images so you had one group posting images and
sometimes talking about them and another group for conversation. We
wanted to have a list where everyone could participate so we set it up
for those people who did not have a fast connection or had limited
storage instead of for those who had more. As Robin points out there are
still some of us who live in rural areas of the US where high speed
connection opportunities are limited. We created the wiki as a place for
images or suggested people could upload them to a free location and give
a link. Then those people who wanted to see them could click on the
link. The wiki was much more simple in the early days so that more
people took advantage of using it. A lot of those groups with double
lists are now gone and the pbs list remains.

David has been spending a lot of time for a lot of years now patiently
trouble shooting multiple problems with this list. And that has become
more challenging than it was in the beginning. He deserves a lot of
praise for his efforts.

Mary Sue

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