-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 03/15/2012 07:43 AM, Lixia Zhang wrote: > > On Mar 15, 2012, at 6:47 AM, John C Klensin wrote: > >> >> >> --On Thursday, March 15, 2012 00:00 -0400 Ross Callon >> <rcallon@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> I don't like this proposal for two reasons: I frequently read email >>> while not connected; When connected, bandwidths have gotten high enough >>> that attachments on the most part are not slowing things down in an >>> uncomfortable way. >>> >>> It might be okay for really large attachments, as long as only a few >>> messages are affected. >> >> Borrowing a bit from Randy, the solution to really large attachments is >> to ban them. > > +1 > > Lixia > I support the ban of attachments in IETF emails. On the other hand, one feature that would be very useful is to add in the email footer a link to the archive in each email forwarded by mailman (mailman does not support that currently), so referencing a past email in a discussion does not require having to search the archive. For example the previous email should contain a link for https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg72476.html. - -- Marc Petit-Huguenin Personal email: marc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Professional email: petithug@xxxxxxx Blog: http://blog.marc.petit-huguenin.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJPYgb2AAoJECnERZXWan7E2egQALYEMBWiAmzaed519zBiAUqD TbKJzMU77sD39PuzxFHe4ZP713/xpzxNhTvZ2iXXJ63L+NmkxM7D7zA/zdsL7bCe 36Ae2XNlWTPMbL5UUVsUL18DMFWJf2dICYK1UDSqDsg18yFRWsH//GUhLCYcbcVA amRcj2LbNaLrFSCndJhz/QAaCS279cjGO1nc+8bjnNAcPeN1Fzlv1BJTvDg07u2J knRP4/sn5muRevK1Yigbz5G4vlNTppUvQ8TqkUAVEBsjzTV4gPuBbfOFAhrpvMdV ExuWgn//1UkzDdSJJDLp8gL5xiHMrSXg6ItEf1H/xcJQR+e7qyM7i2QngDUp6CGf pdFwUIjAQ64WUibR0Xr0UvSTpAy7XXKxyKky+AZEzv2VRXaX0BxQR8ZvvlYlte1G BkMPuq1WoAvHHHCkaMFm4ShoZPw8Hxq77yp7xMlfjaNqK6OYISraJ0oSDjmo0LnT wIG2fexUtOIAYy4dwx/6p+4B5RpyU9WBFI8V6iQVbbFe3Tlete813UvGDgjq84K8 fhO6YtI2UVw5PvfLCnhGr7rGEATbe+1TbfDsxwQBCAlP754SkAKwSOAawGfLXS/0 fXSBYyU1WxCFf8xH7Yxog19p1+RvsdTQ35NWRgi9+N7jSkpVtK7X4DN70I5JexVu a6XqMRyQzblok958Wpzx =i1YY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----