REFLECTOR: Air Show Disaster

Brian Michalk michalk at awpi.com
Tue Mar 8 15:39:15 CST 2011


How about turning that around:

If you have posted a picture in the past, and it exceeds the limit, it's 
held for my approval.
I normally approve large attachments if they meet the sniff test.

I have received scanned jokes.
I have received 50MB attachments.
I have received response emails to the reflector that included original 
attachments ... which is redundant anyway.
I have received emails that are so obviously bloated, like 32bit TIF files.

I approve/release posts to the list if they are not blatant abuses.  So, 
in reality, the current limit is easily bypassed by me.  I get maybe 
three notices per week that a post is oversize.  It's really not that 
much.  Many times I go to the administrative interface to approve it to 
find out that the submitter has retracted it, and sent a new one that 
gets under the limit.

I deny maybe two or three emails a month.  It's a very small number, and 
most people are aware.

I normally don't use my phone to do email, but sometimes I do, and a 
large file will clog it up for a while.

On 3/8/2011 3:22 PM, Richard J. Gentil wrote:
> Let me give an example.
>
> Someone asks how you did something and you want to post 3 pictures 
> showing reasonable detail and you want to send multiple emails or 
> shrink the pictures so much, you really cannot see anything useful. 
> This is 2011 I do not have any trouble with downloading 10mb to 15mb 
> emails. I just thought it would make sense to have the group be able 
> to send up to 3mb.
>
> Now if anyone abuses the extra size we can use for sending emails, 
> well....... That's why we have a moderator to ban them.
>
> The question that should be asked is, "Anyone in the group still on 
> dial-up?" if anyone is still on dial-up, "would they have a problem 
> with 1mb or even 3mb emails?"
>
> Richard
>
> Sent from my iPhone 4
>



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