[DM-MUG] Compression

[Darcy Baston]

I agree with Dave. With a recipients list, you should only ever have  
to send the message and its PDF attachment once. But hosting it on  
your web site is a much better idea.

Setup a "newsletter" folder off the root of the site, put the PDFs of  
the current and past newsletters in there, and then write a web page  
called index.html, also stored in that folder that lists all  
newsletters by year and month.

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Example:
URL: www.dmcycleclub.com/newsletter

Page can look like:
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Current Newsletter (link to current PDF)

Past Newsletters:
2008
May | April | March | February | January (all of these are links)

2007
December | November | October | September | August | July | June | May  
| April | March | February | January (links)
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Name your newsletters using a convention like dmcycleclub-yyyy-mm- 
dd.pdf so they're easy to peruse by you the archive holder (operating  
system will sort them nicely), and club members who may save them.

Darcy


On May 7, 2008, at 6:42 AM, Dave Weis wrote:

> Jack Mathews wrote:
>> Here's my dilemma, I have a 2.1MB pdf  newsletter to send to 389  
>> members of the Des Moines Cycle Club, it takes just under 2 minutes  
>> just to send out 1, can this be compressed on my end so that it  
>> will uncompress on the receivers end to take up less broadband use  
>> and send faster?
>
> Put it on the web site and let people download it when they want  
> instead of putting it in their email :-)
>
> If you send it out as one email with everyone in the BCC it will  
> only get uploaded once. The recipients most likely have an  
> asymmetric Internet connection so they can download 5 times-10 times  
> faster than you can upload also.
>
> dave