Can sound be put in these messages?

[Jonathan Lighter]

But what if we want to do, you know, stage dialects?

JL

Jesse Sheidlower <jester at PANIX.COM> wrote: ---------------------- Information from the mail header -----------------------
Sender:       American Dialect Society
Poster:       Jesse Sheidlower
Subject:      Re: Can sound be put in these messages?
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On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 06:20:33PM +0000, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
> Is there a technical problem with putting sound in this email list.  As a
> group interested in dialects we could really use it here.  Perhaps we could
> partner with another site that does support voice.

There's no technical reason, but opening the list up to
potentially large attachments would be a big can of worms with
little upside.  It's very rare that people have a real need to
include sound files with messages; if we did want to do this
there would be better solutions (e.g. uploading the files to
the ADS website).

Jesse Sheidlower

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