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[Warren Myers via TriLUG]

I haven't understood an email size limit past maybe 20MB for more than 15
years: no one* is reading mail on a dialup connection with Pine anymore.

We may not all live in the Apple/Facebook/Google dreamland of gigabit for
everyone with octocore 15.9GHz processors and quad GPUs ... but everyone is
on broadband *of some kind*


On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 10:34 AM, Matt Flyer via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> Let's ask a couple of practical questions.
>
> What is the purpose of the size limit?  Is it routinely stopping abuse
> or otherwise serving a real requirement?  Or is it an impediment to the
> legitimate mission of this list and organization?
>
> I have been bitten by the limit a couple of times when trying to
> discuss actual, technical topics pertinent to the list, on a couple,
> admittedly rare occasions.  In none of those occasions has the post
> ever been "approved" which quite honestly irritated me a lot more than
> than the initial automated message.  In at least one case, I said
> "forget it" (not actually, forget, but a different word) to the
> detriment of the discussion list.
>
> Perhaps it is time to reconsider this limit?
>
> On Thu, 2018-06-07 at 10:26 -0400, Sean Korb via TriLUG wrote:
> > This got me thinking again about data size.  A 20k email would load
> > on a
> > Commodore64.  Back a few years cassette tape could store about 100 k
> > on each
> >  30 minute side  So a 20k email message would take 6 minutes.  I
> > think 9
> > minutes on a acoustic modem?  Now I don't even check my message size
> > before
> > hitting send :)
> >
> > sean
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 9:50 AM, Brian via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Seems like we need a tweak to the settings,
> > >
> > > if $sender == asjoyner, $sizelimit = 10LC
> > >
> > > where LC == bytes in the Library of Congress.  XD
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 06/06/2018 06:35 PM, Aaron Joyner via TriLUG wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Oh, right.  I had forgotten why I don't post to Trilug more
> > > > often.  ☹️
> > > >
> > > > Aaron S. Joyner
> > > >
> > > >
>
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