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[Ron Kelley via TriLUG]

Is there a preferred method to attaching images to a thread on the trilug list?  In my original thread, I created a simple drawing and converted it to a 1-page PDF.  The resulting file was 22KB (+2KB over the limit).



> On Jun 7, 2018, at 11:30 AM, Pete Soper via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> 
> Every posting to the list is archived. The TriLUG list is 17 years old. With a 20MB limit and human nature ("look at this 4x4k pixel picture of the 2.5mm screw I'm hoping somebody can help me find") there might have been a storage cost problem. I say might because I don't know the situation with the TriLUG server and whether there is any real difference in maintenance cost between tens of gigabytes and tens of terrabytes. But I'm speculating that when the list was set up the limit might have been set with long term storage cost in mind. That was the case when I set up the TriEmbed Mailman list five years ago (with a 100KB per-message limit that is frequently waved for too-large messages that are salient to a thread).
> 
> -Pete (TriLUGer for eons, unable to get to meetings for almost the same time. "Maybe next month.")
> 
> 
> 
> On 06/07/2018 11:07 AM, Warren Myers via TriLUG wrote:
>> 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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