Re: ACL-95 Corpus-based NLP Workshop - Final Call for Papers

Peter Flynn (pflynn@curia.ucc.ie)
22 Mar 1995 10:46:30 +0000 (GMT)

Mika writes:
> was it really necessary to send over a 160kB compressed uuencoded Unix file
> to all corpora list members? Some of us may receive our post on our PCs and
> Macintoshes and don't necessarily know what to do with a package like this
> except delete it. (What's more it's a postscript file. I don't think we all
> have postscript printers)

So that's how big it was :-) ...it killed my QVTnet MUA and dunked
Trumpet as well as dropping the modem line. OK, so I shouldn't be using
flaky mail software, but I agree that the file was excessive for a mailing
list. Don't these people have FTP or HTTP servers?

///Peter