[MCFA Int] documents in e-mails

["Winfried Meining" <wim@DROPMEbarra.csb.ki.se>]

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Dear Laure, Dear Danny, Dear list members,

It's certainly right, that big files attached to e-mails might be 
annoying and it's also true, that word macro viruses are effectively 
spread via word documents attached to e-mails or via downloadable 
documents.

On the other hand it's also true, as Danny said, that larger texts 
are better readable, if they are nicely structured and formatted. 
We also want to encourage people to comment on current topics, if 
necessary also by writing more extensive statements.

I therefore like to suggest different solutions :

- The size of large documents can be considerably reduced, if fancy 
images are kept to a minimum (try it with the available documents). 
If sent via the mailing list, the document should rather not contain 
images.

- comments in form of a straight e-mail are most welcome.

- We offer to make documents available for download via the homepage 
of the swedish MCFA. This could be the preferential way as everyone 
decides him/herself, if and when the file is downloaded. In this 
case some kind of moderation of the documents would of course be 
required.

Danny's document as any other document, that was published in 
matters of the statutes discussion is available as word - file from 
our topics page : http://www.csb.ki.se/mcfa/mcfa_top.html.

- All word documents sent via the mailing list should be checked for 
possible viruses. There are a few virus detection programs available 
(http://www.microsoft.com/msword/freestuff/mvtool/virusinfo.htm or 
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/7538/ : fwin).
The documents available for downloading are checked for macro 
viruses.

I'm sorry to tell you, that the archive of the international mailing 
list is temporarily not available. I expect the problem with the 
server to be fixed by tomorrow.


Winfried

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Winfried Meining                Carmelo Volpe               Danny Roobaert
           Marie Curie Fellowship Association - Swedish Group
Karolinska Institute                               phone  : +46-8-6083-336
Department of Biosciences at Novum                 Fax    : +46-8-6089-290
Haelsovaegen 7-9                                   e-mail : mcfa@DROPMEcsb.ki.se
S-14157 Huddinge, SWEDEN    internet : http://www.csb.ki.se/mcfa/mcfa.html
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