[sdiy] Administrivia: Maximum message size

[Ben Stuyts]

Thank you all for your comments, both on and off list. I’ll keep the limit at 1 MB because of:

- Mobile devices with limited bandwidth, storage,
- Mailbox limits,
- Keeping the feed small

I had a quick look if it is possible for the list software to archive any sent attachments and insert links to our archive instead, but I don’t think this is possible. If there are any Mailman gurus here please let me know if I overlooked something.

And for what it’s worth, I’m against linking to any storage on some image server / dropbox / big-tech-company drive, because often that is only temporary storage. In the long run this would make the archive incomplete.

So I’ll keep bouncing emails > 1 MB. :-)

Thanks,
Ben

> On 1 Nov 2022, at 14:30, Ben Stuyts <ben at stuyts.nl> wrote:
> 
> Hi everybody,
> 
> Recently the list rejected a few emails with a message size > 1024 KB. This limit was put in originally for people on expensive/metered internet connections. The rejected messages contained one or two photos and all were between 1.5 and 3 MB.
> 
> 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.
> 
> (I would apply the same limit for the marketplace list.)
> 
> Ben
> 
> 
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