On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 08:44:20PM +0000, Ian Eiloart wrote:
> 
> On 3 Jan 2010, at 17:37, Louise Ferguson wrote:
> 
> > Hi all
> > 
> > Can someone confirm to me that there are no (realistic) limits on
> > volume/file size submissions by respondents to WDTK? Or whether there
> > are....
> > 
> 
> If the problem is email, then there's no way to tell the size limit,
> since it will vary depending on the email systems of both the sender
> and the recipient. The information provider may well be limited to
> 10MB per email, but 50MB per email is more common these days.
> 
> Remember, emails are usually seven bit encoded, so files will at
> least double in size when attached to an email.
> 
> I don't know WDTK, but it would be sensible if responses could be
> uploaded through the web site instead rather than emailed, if that
> facility isn't already available.

Yes, that facility is available. There is a link at the bottom of each
request, and it authenticates against email addresses at the
authority.

Francis
 
> Ideally, information providers would be using smaller files (the
> problem here is probably images), for environmental reasons. After
> all, they all have CO2 targets now. 
> 
> > Like if they are trying to argue against providing 200 (reports) x
> > 200 KB (max size) to WDTK...
> > 
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