[Dialogue] Offer of document hosting service for list

[Robert Hawley]

Tim, great idea!  You may want to limit the time the posting would stay on 
your web site, lest it get filled up with too much great stuff.
Bob Hawley

At 07:23 PM 7/15/2004, you wrote:

>Offer of Document Hosting Service for OE and Dialogue lists
>
>Occasionally list members want to share documents that are too large
>to email to the list. (This list has a 40K limit to prevent causing
>problems for those with slower connections.)
>
>This will work as follows. Email the file to me personally as an
>attachment. (If you have a program like Winzip, you might compress it
>first if possible.) I will put the file on my web server and send
>you back the location (the URL). You can then paste that location
>into an email you send to the list. Then people can decide to
>download the file or not, and your list posting will be small.
>
>For example, a text file with the content of this message is here:
>
>http://twegner.dyndns.org/wedgeblade.net/Hosting.txt
>
>David Zahrt and I tried this with his post entitled "Singing" and it
>seemed to work well.
>
>Keep in mind that the only security for these files is "security by
>obscurity". By that I mean anyone on the web who knows where the
>files are would be able to download them. So these files need
>to be files you wouldn't mind being shared beyond our list, and in
>particular are files that can be legally shared.
>
>We can consider later connecting the file location with
>www.wedgeblade.net and maybe having a simple web site, but I'm no
>rush to try that.
>
>Tim Wegner
>twegnerATswbell.net
>7/15/2004
>
>
>
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