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Thu Jun 7 12:02:07 EDT 2018

The preferred method is "don't". Post/upload it somewhere like imgur and
just email the link. :)

On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 8:41 AM, Ron Kelley via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> 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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> >>
> >>
> >
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