At 10:53 PM -0400 4/23/00, Robert Guerra wrote: >At 7:07 PM -0700 2000/4/23, wrote: > >>Please don't send a large file like your newsletter to a mailing >>list with several hundred subscribers! >> >>Thank you. > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >It isn't my newsletter, and thought it might be of interest. I >guess I was wrong. My apologies. > >(hope it doesn't get me in trouble with the folks on here) > I was the one Robert quoted. The message was 48K. That's a l-a-r-g-e file. The average file size for a Cypherpunk message is about 2K. It used to be that many mail systems choked at about 24-30K for a single message. For readers who are on low-speed connections, a 48K file may take minutes to download. Any message of this size should be given as a URL, or with just enough stuff quoted so people can decide whether they want to subscribe or not. Sadly, this list and some other lists I'm on are increasingly dominated by advertising spam, forwarded articles, unsuscrive requests, "help me make bombs" bait from low-level LEOs, and twittering from nitwits. --Tim May -- ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, "Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.
