[Cialug] Mail list question.

[Scott Prader]

I'll do that next time.

Thanks
On Jan 1, 2016 3:11 PM, "Jeffrey Ollie" <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:

> When sending to a mailing list, it's almost always best to upload the image
> to an image sharing site like imgur and mail the link.
>
> On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Scott Prader <rigrunn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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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