Why not just put the attached file on a server somewhere and just send the url to everyone? Then you don't glut the archives on the server. > >At 09:58 05/20/2002 Monday, Barak Moshe wrote: >>Hi, >>Sending attachment to a large list can be an extra load on the system >>(space-wise). What I do usually, is perform the following sequence, manually: >> >>1. quiet set list-name nomail for *@* >>2. send the attachments to list-name (nothing is sent out because of >(1) above >> but a copy is archived. >>3. quiet set list-name mail for *@* >>4. send a short mail to list-name with the url of the proper archive. >> >>With large lists/large attachments, the savings is huge, and there is >just one >>copy in the system. >> >>The problem is that this procedure is not likely to be followed by some list >>owners, secretaries etc and I wanted to either automate it or >semi-automate it >>through a script, a web page, etc. >>I wonder if anyone has been doing something in this direction ? -- BE ALERT!!!! (The world needs more lerts ...) Bill Verity - 814-865-4758 Fax: 814-863-7049 215A Computer Building - Information Technology Services, Penn State University At the office - on my Mac, of course ;-)