[Magdalen] pictures in Magdalen

[Marilyn Cepeda]

Thank you Brian!  That would be great!  I am in the same boat with
grandchildren, but my last cat died recently. The two ferals thrive!

Marilyn (Owens, Palmero) Cepeda


On Wed, Jan 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM Brian Reid <brian at reid.org> wrote:

> When the Magdalen list was created some decades ago, I set it up so that
> there could be no attachments. That was because attachments were (and
> still are) a security risk. But there are so many security risks on the
> internet, and every communications channel now includes pictures.
> Magdalen was formed out of the ashes and shareds of Big A, the original
> Englican list hosted by American University, and the technology of that
> time could not include attachments.
>
> Clinging to the email-list rules of the previous century feels rather
> like insisting on the US 1928 prayer book.
>
> Sometime in the next day or two I am going to re-implement the
> magdalen at herberthouse.org mailing list so that it uses 21st-century
> message rules, including image attachments. I will probably announce it
> by sending pictures of my grandchildren. All of my cats have died of old
> age, so I can’t send pictures of my cats. Grandchildren will have to do.
>