From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 30 01:54:41 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 46CBF16A41C; Mon, 30 May 2005 01:54:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from eighner@io.com) Received: from smtp.io.com (smtp.io.com [209.198.128.91]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED26643D1F; Mon, 30 May 2005 01:54:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from eighner@io.com) Received: from io.com (206-224-83-73-dialup.io.com [206.224.83.73]) by smtp.io.com (8.13.3/8.13.3) with SMTP id j4U1scE3049809; Sun, 29 May 2005 20:54:38 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from eighner@io.com) Received: by io.com (nbSMTP-0.98) for uid 1001 for ; Sun, 29 May 2005 20:53:09 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 20:52:28 -0500 (CDT) From: Lars Eighner To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" In-Reply-To: <20050530010316.GM25279@wantadilla.lemis.com> Message-ID: <20050529204246.U4850@goodwill.io.com> References: <20050530003303.GH25279@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20050530101031.23dbc049@bofh.spyderweb.com.au> <200505291753.17303.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> <20050530010316.GM25279@wantadilla.lemis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.84, clamav-milter version 0.84e on smtp.io.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Tim Aslat , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 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 01:54:41 -0000 On Mon, 30 May 2005, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > I've sent a message to the FreeBSD postmaster suggesting a limit of > 100 kB. My reasoning for this relatively low limit: nobody's going to > look at much more anyway, and it will "encourage" people to quote > carefully :-) I'm still wondering what could possibly have been in 9 megs that could conceivably be call a text file about system specification (even at two-bytes per character). Did it specify every molecule in the system? Look, maintainers may indeed be interested in dumps that exceed 100kB, but there is no reason to post stuff like that to a public mailing list. If there is anything that has to be that big or bigger for some reason, stick on the web and provide a link. It may not be any faster to download for people with slow links, but most browsers will give you some idea what you are getting. And people who know they have slow links may elect not to help anyone with 9 megs of problems. -- Lars Eighner eighner@io.com http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266