Contact me off-list if you have questions or concerns. In your replies, it would be helpful to delete any attached or embedded files that were part of the message you respond to. Unless, of course, the file is critical to your response.
In today's case, I pushed through William's post because it was barely over the 3.5 MB threshold. But I didn't push through responses that included William's graphic, so they were rejected for being too large. Michael Welch via RE-wrenches wrote at 05:04 PM 6/5/2025: >Hi gang if you have any questions or concerns, please contact me off-list. > >The message size limit for our list server is set at 3.5 MB. Anything larger >than that is likely to get rejected. > >Message size includes your text, any quoted text, the list footers, any text >and graphics in your signature, and (most significantly) any graphics attached >to the message. > >Usually, limiting total graphics size to under 3 MB is good enough to avoid >triggering the message size limit. > >Of course, it's also helpful for readability to avoid over-quoting messages >you are responding to. Unedited quoting in responses to a chain of several >replies can end up getting pretty long. > >Why do we have this message size limit? To help out those with slower Internet >connections, and to keep from peppering everyone's disks with large >attachments. > >_______________________________________________ >List sponsored by Redwood Alliance > >Pay optional member dues here: http://re-wrenches.org > >List Address: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org > >Change listserver email address & settings: >http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org > >There are two list archives for searching. When one doesn't work, try the >other: >https://www.mail-archive.com/re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org/ >http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org > >List rules & etiquette: >http://www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm > >Check out or update participant bios: >http://www.members.re-wrenches.org _______________________________________________ List sponsored by Redwood Alliance Pay optional member dues here: http://re-wrenches.org List Address: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org Change listserver email address & settings: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org There are two list archives for searching. When one doesn't work, try the other: https://www.mail-archive.com/re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org/ http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List rules & etiquette: http://www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm Check out or update participant bios: http://www.members.re-wrenches.org
