>After running the weekly version with a couple of hundred subscribers,
>I added MIME support. Since the start of this year, I have been offering
>my 'daily' lists in MIME and MailTool format. I have been encouraging
>people to move to the "multi-media" lists. I now have about 2,000
>multi-media subscribers (of my 150,000+ subscriber base).
>
>My goal is to create an audience that can accept pictures, audio clips,
>PostScipt documents, screen shots, etc. Before I get too carried
>away, I was wondering, is anyone else is running 'multi-media' lists
>with MIME or MailTool ? Are there issues that I should be aware of ?
If a list's subscribers are sophisticated and know how to deal with
this, fine, but I would suggest proceeding with caution. I run about 30
lists which address scientific issues, and most of the subscribers are
baffled and irritated by the occasional MIME-encoded or UUencoded
message that gets posted.
For a list dealing with multi-media it would be great, but I wouldn't
dream of doing it on a habitat ecology list. In fact, I'm thinking of
installing a filter to bounce encoded messages to me for processing!
--
Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2
Personal InterNet Address: silvert@biome.bio.ns.ca
HED runs a WWW server at URL=http://biome.bio.dfo.ca
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