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"Christopher K. Coffman" <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 18 May 1999 09:34:04 -0400
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I'd love an e-copy of this image in any format ...
please send it along!
 
Thanks,
Chris Coffman
 
Wayne Pounds wrote:
>
> Thanks, Tim, though I am afraid your technical advise
> came minutes too late. I've just reposted the file.
> But if what you suggest is true about the server
> torpedoing oversized attachments, it won't come
> through and therefore, I hope, won't cause problems of
> the kind you describe to anyone.
>
> So, yes, if anyone would like to have the image, just
> let me know and I will send it.
>
> Here is a comment from Massimo Bacigalupo's
> introduction to Gaietto's catalogue <Cinquanta
> sculture sui Cantos di Ezra Pound>:
>
> "Pound is often regarded as obscure, in need of
> endless explications before we can begin to enjoy him.
> But Pietro Gaietto gives him to us with immediacy and
> humor. This is a great quality. For Pound's solemnity
> is always enlightened by playfulness . . . "
>
> Wayne@Rapallo
>
> --- Tim Romano <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Wayne,
> > The listserver could be enforcing a limit on the
> > size of
> > attachments. FYI, on many other lists, you'd be
> > flamed to a crisp
> > for sending an attachment that size, because some
> > folks still have
> > very slow dialup connections or pay high rates for
> > their online
> > time or use mail readers whose attachment-handling
> > capabilities
> > are crude. It could take 20 minutes or more to bring
> > down an image
> > that size over a slower connection. When I receive
> > large email
> > attachments, they sometimes cause my ISP's mail
> > server to fail to
> > release a lock on my mailbox, and I have to make a
> > phone call to
> > tech support, remain on hold for ? minutes, and then
> > get them to
> > fix the problem.  While I am waiting for them to fix
> > the problem,
> > I continue to receive, over and over, mail I've
> > already
> > downloaded. Given such technical problems, the usual
> > etiquette is
> > to announce the availability of such an image and a
> > willingness to
> > send it directly to those who request it or to put
> > it on a web
> > site and announce the URL from where it may be
> > downloaded. To make
> > it smaller, you could compress it using WinZIP
> > (http://www.winzip.com).  Or you could save it as a
> > GIF after
> > reducing its color depth.
> > Tim Romano
> >
> > Wayne Pounds wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks for the confirmation, but no one has seen
> > the
> > > JPEG image I sent Friday? Excuse my persistance,
> > but I
> > > am sure this artist's work would be of great
> > interest
> > > to the ep list. I'll resend the image if
> > necessary,
> > > perhaps in another format or smaller size (the
> > JPEG
> > > was 400+)? Can someone with technical savoir faire
> > > advise?
> > >
> > > Wayne
> > > @Rapallo
> > >
> >
>
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