Re: Email messages: How large is too large?

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand]

At 17:39 10.12.99 -0800, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>As someone who has used the Internet since before it was even *called* the
>Internet, I can remember when noone would have dreamed of sending email
>messages that were even 50 kBytes in size.  Times have changed, of course,
>and now it's commonplace for people to send email messages that are
>significantly larger than this.
>
>But how large is too large?

It is of course context dependent.

One particular case may have wider interest:
When I run open mailing lists, I've set the default size limit (above which 
one has to get moderator approval, NOT out-of-hand rejection) to 400 
Kbytes, up from the product default of 40K, which effectively blocked most 
Word documents. (Some would consider that a feature)

That's something that may be of interest as a general recommendation to 
IETF working group mailing list. But the value is a guess.

                                Harald

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