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Re: Message size limits
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- Subject: Re: Message size limits
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 10:20:18 +0200 (CEST)
- cc: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, <overseers at gcc dot gnu dot org>
On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> (a) Could the exact message size limits, or the absence thereof, for all
> the gcc lists, be documented?
You mean, as in http://gcc.gnu.org/lists.html?
All the lists have a maximum message size. If your message exceeds more
than 100kbytes, you should compress any attachments before
sending it to the list.
The only list not bound by that, apparently, is gcc-prs...
> (b) Could a message size limit be applied to gcc-prs? While there might
> be some use in fairly large attachments being received on that list - if
> gnatsweb learnt to have them sent out as proper MIME messages rather than
> needing manual decoding, and if gnatsweb automatically compressed them - I
> don't think 25Mbyte attachments (PR 3581) are going to be sufficiently
> useful to their recipients to justify sending them to the list. I suggest
> 2Mbyte as the limit; only the following PRs in the database are larger
> than that:
...and I agree that this should be changed. 25MB is just, well, excessive!
Can one of the mailing list admins place make this change? I'll then
update the web page.
Gerald
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