Re: Message size limits

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 10:20:18AM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>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.

It looks like someone changed this to ~2MB.

cgf