[Cialug] Mail list question.

[Scott Prader]

Thank you for your response.  Indeed, I was unaware of a filesize limit on
attachments, but given the number of possible recipients, I wanted to crop
it down to as small as I could so that it wouldn't cause any congestion.

Scott
On Jan 1, 2016 1:43 PM, <matt at itwannabe.com> wrote:

> The mailing list does have a rather small message size limit of 81kB, so
> if even a small image is attached it can cause the list to hold the message
> for review by a list admin.  For example, the attached image caused this
> message to be delayed for review.
>
> Generally I just send these messages through after making sure there isn't
> anything spammy about them (and there almost never is because you have to
> be subscribed to send mail to the list), but I'm only one of, like, 5 list
> admins so I might never have seen the original message.
>
> It is possible that no one replied to the message if no one has an answer
> for your question.  You should have received a copy of your original
> message, though, as your email address has the option to deliver copies of
> email you sent to the list to you (which is the default setting for this
> list).
>
> If you tried to send the message from a different email address (other
> than the rigrunn Google address), then it may have been blocked without a
> notification to the list admins.  I've had that happen to me before because
> I have a stupid, ridiculous number of email addresses set up in thunderbird
> and my android mail client, and I'm not always paying attention to which
> one is set to send new mail messages from.
>
> If the message size limit should be raised, that is something that could
> be argued for in a new subject thread, as I'm pretty sure that the size
> limit was probably set when a 33.6kbps modem was the normal method of
> accessing the internet.  I'm not sure if it's really required when the
> standard delivery method is "plain text", so you shouldn't really be
> sending large MIME or HTML messages in the first place.
>
> -- Matt (N0BOX)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Prader <rigrunn at gmail.com>
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
> Sent: Fri, 01 Jan 2016 13:52
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Mail list question.
>
> It seems that yahoo! mail has fallen victim to something or other.  I have
> attached a small file.
> I sent an email to this address with a question on the 26th of December and
> never saw the message or any response to it.  However I continue to see
> other messages to the group pop up in my email regularly.  Did I not follow
> the correct procedure in sending that mail message?
> Could someone provide some feedback please?
> Thank you!
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