gcc/gcc/ada ChangeLog gnat_rm.texi

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Florian Weimer wrote:

> > The GCC mailing lists already have large volumes of mail (often over
> > 10Mbyte/month for some of the lists, over 60Mbyte/month total).  The odd
> > 400kbyte patch isn't particularly significant in this;
> 
> I understand your point, but the mailing list software seems to
> support my view:
> 
> | Hi. This is the qmail-send program at sourceware.cygnus.com.
> | I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
> | This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
> | 
> | <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>:
> | ezmlm-reject: fatal: Sorry, I don't accept messages larger than 400000 bytes (#5.2.3)

That's why I said 400kbyte, larger patches should be compressed (if very
boring) or split (otherwise).

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk