3 or 4 lightening bolts
Brynne:
Okay, I have a question that I didn't want to make a whole new thread for. I've taken up too much of this board as it is.
I have quite a list of people to send my sim guys to. Is there a more efficient way to do that than through email? Besides putting a public link somewhere, that is. I'm very happy to share my stuff, but I do want to keep tabs on where it's going, and don't want to make it open to everybody in the world. Mostly out of respect for anyone whose custom content I used to create these sims. Like AllenABQ- I used his skintones. But also because I'm just weird that way. In other words, I don't want to submit it to, say, TSR or anything. Or the exchange. I've been emailing the rar files to people, but it takes forever and a day to send each one off, not to mention I have a bandwidth limit. I don't know a thing about this stuff! It would be nice if I could upload it somewhere, but only have to email a link to those who requested the files, so there's still some privacy involved. Kind of like when pay sites email a link to a download once you send them your cash, only I'm not charging, of course. Am I making any sense at all? Any suggestions?
RainbowTigress:
Quote from: Brynne on 2005 October 27, 05:04:33
Any suggestions?
How about a Yahoo group? You can make it private, unlisted, invite only, friends only, and stuff like that. You get 20 MB of space per group.
Hook:
No suggestions on where to host it, but if you send out one email with attachment with everyone's name in the TO line you should only have to send it once. Instead of sending a separate email to each recipient.
I sincerely hope that:
a) this makes sense
b) this isn't so obvious as to be insulting. :)
Hook
Bangelnuts:
Quote from: Hook on 2005 October 27, 05:10:54
No suggestions on where to host it, but if you send out one email with attachment with everyone's name in the TO line you should only have to send it once. Instead of sending a separate email to each recipient.
I sincerely hope that:
a) this makes sense
b) this isn't so obvious as to be insulting. :)
Hook
good I dea we used to do that in a loop I belonged to a long time ago
Brynne:
MistressofMerlin, added!
Thanks, guys. Good suggestions. I may look into that Yahoo group thing.
No, Hook, wasn't insulted at all! I got a message from my email provider saying something about bandwidth usage and it mentioned sending...well, I'll copy and paste it.:
This warning has been caused by an unusually high amount of bandwidth
being used by your account. Most commonly this warning is triggered by
sending a large message to many recipients. Email is an inefficient
method for distributing large files, and a separate copy has to be sent
to every recipient. For instance if you send a 5MB file to 5 people,
that takes 5*5MB = 25MB bandwidth, plus 5MB to send the message from
your PC to the server.
I was confused by the whole bandwidth thing, which is why I'm looking for a more "efficient" method.
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