[sdiy] Administrivia: Maximum message size

[Roman Sowa]

Part of my job is to respond to customers' emails, so I've seen it all. 
As a general rule everybody make pictures with their iPhone not knowing 
anything about making pictures. That is 40 Mpix, 15MB file which is 
dark, out of focus, shaken, tilted and shows not really what matters, 
but mostly customer's appartment or their feet. Those pictures could be 
downsized to 320x240 40kB and still look exactly the same. Good if it's 
just one picture, but there's always more, and that kills my mobile 
internet.

Meanwhile it's not unussual on the web to see quality sharp photos with 
lots of details taking almost entire screen that are less than 300kB in 
size.

Let's not get carried away with what today's technology alows, because 
it only creates false need for more bandwidth, resolution, memory, 
whatever and makes people lazy. I bet every phone has setting to make 
lower res photo, but typical thinking is "48Mpix must be better than 2", 
while actual image sensor is only 5Mpix.
It's not even technology but marketing championships - the one who 
offers more of anything, wins. More memory can hold more carelesly 
written crappy software and more oversized pictures. This could go endless.

BTW, I'd love to have VT-100

Roman


W dniu 2022-11-04 o 13:12, Benjamin Tremblay via Synth-diy pisze:
> Please do! I don’t use my Sinclair or my VT-100 to check email very often anymore.
> 
> Benjamin Tremblay
> 
>> On Nov 1, 2022, at 9:52 AM, ulfur hansson via Synth-diy <synth-diy at synth-diy.org> wrote:
>>
>> im totally cool with larger files and would love to see more pictures of projects etc!
>>
>> sent from outer space
>>
>>> On 1 Nov 2022, at 13:41, Chris McDowell via Synth-diy <synth-diy at synth-diy.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> The most recent one was me :) I resent with smaller photos, but 1MB did stand out to me as conservative! I personally would like to see more photos in the discussions.
>>>
>>> Chris McDowell
>>>
>>>>> On Nov 1, 2022, at 8:30 AM, 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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