Dear Mark,

this huge message was NOT send to you by HP, but from one of our Channel
Partners who wanted to do something good to you in providing you
information which you usually do not get in such a timely matter.

We, the HP 3000 Marketing Center in Europe, are regularly distributing
tons of MB to our partners via email and have found this very excepted
(and very welcomed) by them. Having information in electronic forms for
printing datasheet, infos, you name it, is very helpful as you can
imagine. Our addresses all have fast Internet connections, otherwise we
would not be able to do this.

So I'm assuming you have not seen the real sender in your received
email, again it was not us, so we have as well definitely not got any
reply from you as you stated.

But it's great that we were blamed for sending TOO MUCH information,
usally it's the other way around.

Best regards, and let me know if you need any further help on this,

Ivica Juresa
European HP 3000 Business Unit Manager

Mark Wilkinson wrote:
>
> Dear List,
>
> I'm putting this message out here in the hope that someone in the HP
> organisation picks it up and takes action! I replied to the original message but
> am not sure whether it will be picked up.
>
> <RANT>
>
> This morning, I received a gigantic email from HP (Europe) in my personal pop3
> mailbox. It consisted of product information and blurb with some rather large
> gifs attached. In total, the message was in excess of 4 megabytes!! The sender
> address was [log in to unmask]
>
> Can the person/people who sent this please abide by good netiquette and use a
> bit of common sense! I do like to be kept informed of what's happening with the
> 3000 in Europe but I don't want a mailbox-full of unsolicited gifs. This isn't
> the first time this has happened either. I remember getting something like a
> 2-meg email a while back that contained a gif of a poster.
>
> I think the moral is : Think before you hit the send button. Does the guy on the
> other end have a T3 connection like you or does he just have a 56k modem...
>
> Put the attachments on a Webserver or an ftp server so that people can get them
> on demand.
>
> </RANT>
>
> Nuff said.
>
> Mark Wilkinson.
> SPE.