[sdiy] Administrivia: Maximum message size

[Tom Wiltshire]

+1 agree.

The 1MB limit forces people to think a bit before uploading. That's a good thing!

> On 1 Nov 2022, at 15:15, grant musictechnologiesgroup.com <grant at musictechnologiesgroup.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm also of the thought that 1MB is fine. How hard is it to crop and/or 
> resize a photo? Or convert to a resonable JPG?  Cell phone pics 
> particularly seem gigantic.
> 
> ------ Original Message ------
> From: "Neil Johnson via Synth-diy" <synth-diy at synth-diy.org>
> To: "Ben Stuyts" <ben at stuyts.nl>
> Cc: "SDIY List" <synth-diy at synth-diy.org>
> Sent: 11/1/2022 6:45:05 AM
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] Administrivia: Maximum message size
> 
>> 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
>> 
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