Where is the size max of each mailing list set?

[Richard Earnshaw]

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> 
>   In message < jmlmqy1jnq.fsf@geoffk.org >you write:
>   > > It's set in the list configuration code.  It's easy enough to change, but
>   > > I'd like to avoid doing so unless it's absolutely necessary.
>   > > 
>   > > How about having the code which mails those reports compress & encode
>   > > them?
>   > 
>   > I think I'd really rather read testresults without needing to
>   > uncompress them.  It's OK that some lists will occasionally have large
>   > messages sent to them, so long as this is known in advance.
> OK.  We'll, I've doubled the maximum size to 400000 bytes.  Hopefully
> that's enough for the stuff we care about, but small enough to filter out
> core files and other stuff we don't want.

Surely if a test run is producing 400K of output it's pretty 
comprehensively broken.  We don't need the full 400K to know that.  Can't 
the auto-posting scripts be modified to send say the first 50K with a 
prefix that the test log has been truncated due to excessive failures?

R.