From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Larmour To: Christian Plessl Cc: Julius Vanderspek , ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [ECOS] Re: Red Hat eCos and RedBoot news Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 13:35:00 -0000 Message-id: <3AD36EA3.B5126AA9@redhat.com> References: X-SW-Source: 2001-04/msg00089.html Christian Plessl wrote: > > Hi Juul > > Did you realize that you were posting a 16MB attachment file to a public > mailing list!!!!!! I suppose this was by mistake. > > You should NEVER NEVER post attachment of that size to maling lists. > There are a lot of people without highspeed internet connections out > there. Some of them may not be able to use IMAP and will have to > download all your 16MB file even if they are not interessted in. We have tried to expunge the message from the mail system before it got sent to everyone. Indeed, I haven't even received it myself, and now I never will. Juul, I will e-mail you privately about potentiall getting the file to Red Hat so we can make it available for FTP if you like. In the meantime, you may want to e-mail to the list the text of your message, without the attachment. > Sidenot to the guys at Redhat: Can't you configure your mailinglist > server to reject messages with attachments larger than say some 10 kB. 10Kb seems a bit low. But even the list maintainers thought there was some limit. It seems it was missed as an oversight, and is obviously going to be corrected. Jifl -- Red Hat, Rustat House, Clifton Road, Cambridge, UK. Tel: +44 (1223) 271062 Maybe this world is another planet's Hell -Aldous Huxley || Opinions==mine