Hi, I'd like to point out one more point that hadn't been braught up. If a message is large do to a news letter, an audyssey mag, or something that was just large to begin with that can not be trimmed or cut down to size we make sure to pass those through the system.
Raul A. Gallegos wrote: > Hi everyone. I'd just like to take the time to point out that in the > last several days there have been several messages which have been > rejected based on size. When writing or replying to a message it's > important to rememder that if the message is too big it will not go > through. Below are some key points to remember. Also, if you have any > questions on this topic please write [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead > of replying here. > > 1. If your message is a reply please trim the extra lines. Usually a > good practice for this is to only quote the person who you are replying > to. Example, if there is a topic about checkers and there 5 messages and > you reply to the newest, by simply replying you are adding your message > and if you include the whole quoted thing you are including the first 5 > messages. However if your reply only is in reference to the last person > who wrote then it makes sence to erase everything after that person's > message. > > 2. No one wants to tell anyone how to write emails or in what format, > however one thing to take into account is if your email client is > sending out html messages what usually happens is the message is > actually sent in two parts. part 1 is the html message and part 2 is the > text attachment. Our mailing list software strips out the html message > and sends the text version to the list. However the size check is done > before the html message is stripped off. What this means is if your > message is say, 5 or 6 k in size normally, the added html code will make > it much bigger. Our mailing list software won't know the difference and > your message might be rejected. So, short fix is to simply not use html > messages and instead send text only. > > We realize of course that either people don't want to just use text > messages or they don't know how to change it or they cannot change it > from their client. In cases like this we try to allow messages through > if we can determine the reason for the extra size. If the message is > obviously large due to lack of trimming old quoted messages then it's > rejected. But if the message would have most likely passed through > except for the html junk in it, then we'll let it go through. > > All the best. > > _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
