On 4/21/2017 6:04 AM, David Pilling wrote: > Raises the question why have we done nothing, and if I have my doubts > about ibiblio, why don't others. When this list was started many years ago, the decision was made not to allow images. At that time attachments were often the sources of viruses and we couldn't prevent that from happening. Also there were a lot of us who were on dial up and when we'd receive large images, we'd have to go away, sometimes for hours, while those images were being downloaded. And some people had limited storage on their email accounts and didn't want it to be filled with images that they might not have been interested in receiving. On other lists those people who did not want to receive images would unsubscribe. Image lists were created for all those people who just wanted to post images so you had one group posting images and sometimes talking about them and another group for conversation. We wanted to have a list where everyone could participate so we set it up for those people who did not have a fast connection or had limited storage instead of for those who had more. As Robin points out there are still some of us who live in rural areas of the US where high speed connection opportunities are limited. We created the wiki as a place for images or suggested people could upload them to a free location and give a link. Then those people who wanted to see them could click on the link. The wiki was much more simple in the early days so that more people took advantage of using it. A lot of those groups with double lists are now gone and the pbs list remains. David has been spending a lot of time for a lot of years now patiently trouble shooting multiple problems with this list. And that has become more challenging than it was in the beginning. He deserves a lot of praise for his efforts. Mary Sue _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@mailman1.ibiblio.org http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/