The 40kb limit was one of the sysadmin rules at UCL, and I happen to agree with it (obviously, it could have been 50 or 100 or whatever, but they use 40). I know it is sometimes annoying but it does prevent massive attachments. Some years ago I was on probably 6 HL7 lists (they have about 40) and there was not only no limit to size, but continual cross-posting, with the result that 3Mb attachments were regularly sent, and received 4 times! I for one don't want to go there again.... i think today there is always an option for putting up some large file and just emailing the link to it.
If people want to up the actual current limit of 40kb to 70, 100 or so, that is certainly doable, but I am not sure what problem it is solving. - thomas On 16/09/2011 17:42, Rong Chen wrote: > Hi all, > > I am quite happy with the current infrastructure - mailing lists, > issue tracking and SVN repositories. One thing I am missing for the > java project is a build server, something like Apach Continuum that > can check out the latest code, compile, run all the testcases, and > publish reports and successful builds somewhere. > > Sebastian, It seems we have a manual step in the process of > rejecting(or allowing) large mail. At least that's the case with the > java list that I am monitoring. It will be convenient if the mail is > just bounced automatically if it's too large. Perhaps there is a > setting somewhere we could use with the current mailing list software. > > Cheers, > Rong >
