[Coin-discuss] Please limit attachment size of postings

[Matthew Saltzman]

OK The message was originally held due to its size, but somebody
approved it.

So moderators, please pay attention to why messages are held before
releasing them.  We're pretty good at deleting spam held because of
non-membership, but it's pretty easy to miss apparently legitimate mail,
particularly if one manages fully moderated lists as well as unmoderated
ones.

Thanks, and apologies on behalf of the moderator.

On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 23:04 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> Andreas-
> 
> Message body size on coin-discuss is limited to 40K.  There's no
> separate setting for attachment size.  I'm not sure why this limit
> didn't block today's message, but I'll investigate some more.
> 
> Having said that, the etiquette for attachments is more or less what
> Andreas says.  Larger attachments can be uploaded to Trac pages or Trac
> tickets, if appropriate.  There's nothing wrong with opening a ticket
> for a suspected problem--in fact, that's generally to be preferred, as
> we can track issues as tickets more easily than as e-mails.
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 22:29 -0500, Andreas Waechter wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Whoever maintains the coin-discuss mailing list, please set the limit for 
> > the allowed attachments or total size of postings.
> > 
> > While one might be tempted to rely on the reason of the people posting to 
> > a mailing list not to send insanely huge attachments to tons of people, 
> > this obviously doesn't work.
> > 
> > I (and probably most of us) just found three messages of 20MB in our 
> > INBOX.  While most of us are on a fast internet connection (imagine 
> > downloading 60MB on a dial-up), it might still exceed the allowable size 
> > of the INBOX of an internet provider.
> > 
> > If someone wants to share large data files, the polite and correct 
> > procedure is to either make it available for download somewhere else, or 
> > to ask on the mailing list who the correct person is to send it to 
> > directly.
> > 
> > Thanks for your consideration.
> > 
> > Andreas
> > 
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                Matthew Saltzman

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