Hello, just wondering if this is going through, I have a new email program.
> [Original Message] > From: Thomas Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Gamers Discussion list <[email protected]> > Date: 9/28/2006 5:56:18 PM > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Moderator's quick note regarding message size > > 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
