Etiquette When Sending Images

The key thing to remember here is that Internet connection isn't free for most people and in some areas of the world users pay the Internet Service Provider according to the number of kilobytes of data passed. So if you send someone a file that is a megabyte in size these people will pay a hundred times more for that image than if you sent the same information in a 10 kilobyte file. Since it is rare for the 1 megabyte file to contain more useful information than the compressed, edited, resized 10 kb file it is a serious breach of "netiquette" and will attract hostile comment! Many sophisticated members of an email list set up a filter to block out all messages above a certain size so a message with a large file will not be passed to them. This defeats your objective in sending the information. For this reason you should familiarize yourself with the section on editing images and practice doing it.

Another option which is used by people with access to website servers to which they can upload files is to post the images on the World Wide Web and circulate the URL addresses to the people who might be interested. That way it is up to them to connect with the website. This should be done if your message has a large number of images or they have to be large for some reason. It is polite to warn people of the size of images that you post - unless they are very small.