[sdiy] Administrivia: Max image / message size

[Ben Stuyts]

Thanks everybody for your opinions and ideas, both public and in private.

The 1 MB limit has been here for a while. It was increased from a much lower limit to give members the option to add some relevant graphics or photo’s inline without the need to click to an external site.

I don’t think the archive is growing too much because of the attachments. This is the total size of the attachments in the last few years:

2017: 17 MB
2018: 11 MB
2019: 8 MB
2020: 25 MB

For the server it is no problem. But I don’t want to burden anybody with large emails if they are on cost-sensitive of bandwidth-limited (mobile) connections. So I’ll leave it at 1 MB for now.

Thanks,
Ben


> On 14 Oct 2020, at 19:38, Michael Zacherl <sdiy-mz01 at blauwurf.info> wrote:
> 
> When this valued list started it was a general taboo to attach a mail signature longer than 4 lines of text, back then.
> This definitely has changed. As much as fewer and fewer people know what’s Netiquette. 
> I’m surprised to read about this 1MB limit. 
> I consider this large and archives will grow much faster.
> 
> Michael.
> 
>> On 14.10.2020, at 16:07, Roman Sowa <modular at go2.pl> wrote:
>> 
>> I mean it's like GPRS - 3G -> LTE -> 5G that people get so obsessed today. You give more bandwidth to satisfy needs that are self-propelled by bandwidth availability, then demand rises for more than anyone has imagined. And then will come 6G because why not, and it doesn't ever stop.
>> 
>> Some people are keeping local archives of SDIY emails, and while some past years might take in total 50MB/year, it may soon turn into 500MB per week.
> 
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