Warning about the size of the NEXT message

On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 12:34:57PM +0200, Gert Doering, Netmaster wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 11:52:25AM +0200, Vesna Manojlovic wrote:
> > It is not our practice to allow such huge messages to go to the list. We tried 
> > to find an alternative way of posting it; however, due to lack of time we did 
> > not succeed. It is important that this message reaches lir-wg before the RIPE 
> > meeting.
> 
> A sensible way would have been to put it up on the RIPE web server, and 
> just send the URL to the list.
> 
> Besides this, sending winword is impolite anyway.  I can't read it (no
> windows machine here) without having to ask a collegue from a different
> department to print it for me.  If you want to send formatted document,
> politeness would ask for PDF.

Or HTML which is readable by even more systems than PDF.
It's usually a 'one-mouse-click' action to create a proper HTML file
within this M$ word app and you're done.

-- 
Ralf Gebhart
Network Planning & Realization
Cybernet AG Munich