[DM-MUG] Message size.

[Dave Weis]

Ray Bowler wrote:
> For the record there have been three in the last month.

I don't think that would count as a critical outbreak of oversized 
emails. A 38 KB message would take a whopping 6 or 7 seconds to download 
over a 56k connection. Any single web page on the internet other than 
the main page of google is larger than that.

I don't disagree that sending random large attachments should be thought 
twice about but it's not that big of a problem.

> At 4:34 PM -0500 9/26/07, CW Smith wrote:
>> Ray: I've never received any oversize messages from the list. Largest 
>> message I've received, since I set up in Mail last December, was 38KB 
>> from Victoria in April. Are you receiving oversized messages from 
>> individuals? from spammers? Am I not getting all the DMMUG messages?
>>
>> Anyone else want to chime in here?
>>
>> On Sep 26, 2007, at 3:52 PM, Ray Bowler wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everybody.
>>>
>>> I have a problem with the mailing list which you need to be aware of. 
>>> There is a 40 KB size limit for messages to the list. For many of us 
>>> this is essential because some are still on dial up connections. Any 
>>> large message takes an extremely long time to download and ties up 
>>> the phone line. This is not acceptable. If you want to give the list 
>>> a lot of graphics and information post it to a web site and let us 
>>> know the URL. I will not approve these sized messages but will reject 
>>> them.
>>>