Hi, Nadav.
I think I wouldn't mind receiving a 500K-1M message, which is enough for a good picture.
But an unwanted 3-5M message may be a bit exasperating...
Best regards,
Christian Sánchez
chvsanchez~at~arnet.com.ar
Rosario, Argentina
----- Mensaje original -----
De: "Nadav Har'El" <nyh~at~math.technion.ac.il>
Para: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
Enviado: martes, 8 de mayo de 2012 9:47
Asunto: Re: Master of the World
> On Tue, May 08, 2012, Craig Weatherhill wrote about "Re: Master of the World":
>> I've now tried twice to send in a message with an attached jpg.
>> photo (of Table Rock, Morganton, aka The Great Eyrie). Can anyone
>> tell me why it isn't getting through?
>>
>> Craig
>
> Hi, sorry, the mailing list software sets a configurable limit on the size
> of each message. Beyond this limit, the message needs manual confirmation
> by the mailing list administrator (which is me...) before it will be delivered.
> You (the sender of the message) were supposed to get back a mail saying this -
> that your mail has been detained because of its size.
>
> The message size limit is currently set at 60,000 bytes, which should be
> more than enough for any text messages, but is obviously not enough for
> images. I guess my father's original intention was to discourage
> attaching large images to messages, as links could be posted instead.
> Large images could annoy people with slow connections (remember 56Kbps
> modems?) and small mail quotas (remember hotmail's 2 MB quota, just 8
> years ago?). These issues are no longer as serious on today's Internet,
> but it's also not hard to post links to images - so I'd appreciate some
> comments from the members - would you like me to increase this 60,000
> byte limit? Increase it to what? I assume people still won't appreciate
> getting sent a 50 MB video clip from he mailing list...
>
> In any case, I just manually accepted now your original message (the first
> one), and it will be delivered as usual to everyone, with its attached image.
> I assume no need to pass through also your second post, with (presumably?)
> the same image?
>
> Let me know if you have any other problems with the mailing list.
>
> Nadav.
>
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