Comments on: Excess baggage http://www.dont-be-a-twit.com/2007/03/29/excess-baggage/ How to use the Internet without getting up other people's noses Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:28:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kay http://www.dont-be-a-twit.com/2007/03/29/excess-baggage/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Kay Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:41:48 +0000 http://www.dont-be-a-twit.com/2007/03/29/excess-baggage/#comment-18 In the days before we had broadband some twit sent me, by email attachment, the entire contents of her photo album. I couldn't receive other emails for hours and hours while these blasted photos were being downloaded. I know now that there are other ways to deal with this, eg deleting them from the server and not downloading them at all. But the point remains - doing this kind of thing can lead to tears of anger and frustration from the hapless recipient. On a similar point, these "forward to all your friends" things are a real pain too. Perhaps a subject for a future posting? In the days before we had broadband some twit sent me, by email attachment, the entire contents of her photo album. I couldn’t receive other emails for hours and hours while these blasted photos were being downloaded.

I know now that there are other ways to deal with this, eg deleting them from the server and not downloading them at all. But the point remains – doing this kind of thing can lead to tears of anger and frustration from the hapless recipient.

On a similar point, these “forward to all your friends” things are a real pain too. Perhaps a subject for a future posting?

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