[sdiy] Administrivia: Maximum message size

[Ben Stuyts]

The archive has no problem with larger attachments. Disk is cheap, and it does not pose any additional load on the CPU. Traffic on the server should be no problem either.

Some stats:
- The current archive of 27 years is ca. 1.2 GB, of which 150 MB are attachments. I currently have 20 GB free on that disk.
- Traffic (on a pooled 10 GB connection) varies between 80 - 150 GB/month out of a 5 TB maximum.

Ben

> On 1 Nov 2022, at 14:45, Neil Johnson <neil.johnson71 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Ben,
> 
>> Would there be any objections if I raised the limit to, say, 4 MB? Times are changing and I personally don’t know anyone where this would be a problem.
> 
> Personally I would keep it at 1MB - if you can't get your message
> across in 1MB then resize it.  How will the archive survive with the
> extra load?  This is an email list, not a web forum, and while the
> traffic is not huge it doesn't take too many replies-with-attachments
> to fill up an email inbox, and many times I'm reading email on a
> smartphone.
> 
> Neil
>