From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 30 13:46:37 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DBD816A431 for ; Mon, 30 May 2005 13:46:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jdunham@texas.net) Received: from mail26.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail26.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B162A43D1F for ; Mon, 30 May 2005 13:46:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jdunham@texas.net) Received: (qmail 6997 invoked from network); 30 May 2005 13:46:36 -0000 Received: from dsl093-216-153.aus1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO licorice) (ldunham@[66.93.216.153]) (envelope-sender ) by mail26.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 30 May 2005 13:46:36 -0000 From: "Jerry Dunham" To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 08:47:59 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <429AD33F.19909.2E403D3A@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <20050530003303.GH25279@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20050530093904.232a6ae1@bofh.spyderweb.com.au> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.21c) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Cc: Subject: Obese mail messages (was: Re: drivers) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 13:46:37 -0000 On 30 May 2005 at 10:03, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Monday, 30 May 2005 at 9:39:04 +0930, Tim Aslat wrote: > > On Mon, 30 May 2005 08:42:26 +0930 > > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > > >> Nowhere is a good place to send 10 MB of illegible log output. Please > >> don't. > > > > I agree. > > > >> Do you really expect people to read this? It's incorrectly coded, and > >> it's far too long. Many people pay for their mail; you have cost me > >> personally $2.00 to download this message. > > > > Knowing what kind of setup you have Greg, I can believe that. > > > > Although it has opened up a rather large can of worms. Can the list > > maintainers restrict message sizes to less than a meg? I honestly > > can't imagine any possible reason for sending an attachment larger than > > 500K (shar files, etc) to a public mailing list. > > > > Is it worth looking into doing this, or am I barking up the wrong > > metaphor? > > I suppose it's reasonable. On the other hand, in my recollection this > is the first time this has happened. If this is the first time it's happened, then setting a 1 MB (or 2 MB) limit won't affect many people, nor will it affect anyone you don't want to affect. I think a limit is quite reasonable. If someone on the list has something really large to send, he or she can always offer it first, and then only those truly interested will reply and can get it directly, off list, saving the rest of the list membership the time and expense. -- Jerry Dunham jdunham@texas.net