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Re: attachment policy
From: Eddie C. Dost
Date: 2006 Jun 2, 08:50 +0200
From: Eddie C. Dost
Date: 2006 Jun 2, 08:50 +0200
Hi,
I think Inmarsat C uses 1200 Baud and charges on 32 Byte blocks,
this votes against attachments. How many people are subscribed to
the list and use this from Inmarsat connections? If there is none
or little then the below is fine, else we should rethink.
Just a thought,
Christian
> Zed wrote
>
> > A 9600bps modem is capable of downloads in the region of 0.6 KiloBytes
> > per second, so a 25kb attachment would take approximately 42 seconds
> > to download.
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