RE: Administrivia: Columns, URLs & attachments

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Hi Paul,

I actually use this list as a valuable Celtics news clippings service. It's
impractical to subscribe to every newspaper or watch every Celtic show so I
appreciate the job the members of this list do in providing this factual
information from sportswriters across the country.

I enjoy reading the sportswriter's columns posted to this list, however, I
frequently travel and tend to do most of my reading in airports and planes
where I don't have live net access so clicking on a url is not practical for
me. I seldom go back to any emails that require web access.

(The lack of live net access is also a problem with the increase in HTML
emails.  More and more are  impossible to read unless you have net access.
Text email, though on the decline actually has a real benefit over HTML
email, you can read it without the internet!)

If you would continue to allow the posting of columns I would appreciate it.
Thanks for spending the time and energy and money to keep this list alive
for so many years.  Remember when the list chatter was basically
non-existent from June through September?  

-steve

(aka Bostonian Steve Celtics Page in my prior life)

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-celtics@igtc.com [mailto:owner-celtics@igtc.com] On Behalf Of
Paul M. Moriarty
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 8:19 PM
To: celtics@igtc.igtc.com
Subject: Administrivia: Columns, URLs & attachments


Folks,

All attachments sent to the list are removed by the list software before
your posting gets sent.  All html is unformatted back to plain text. This
keeps digest folks happy (attachments and html) do bizarre things when put
into the digest format.  It also prevents viruses from being sent to the
list.

As for posting columns versus full URLs, I ask folks to respect any
copyrights and not repost copyrighted material to the list without prior
permission from the author.  

In my opinion (not rule or guideline), posting the URL to a column gives
those interested the opportunity to click on the link and read the article
and allows those who are not interested to move on quickly to the next item.

- Paul -

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