[NSRCA-discussion] NSRCA-discussion message size increased

[Scott McHarg]

Great job Tom!

Thanks,


On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Tom Simes <simestd at netexpress.com> wrote:

>
> Hi folks,
>
> In the past few weeks, multiple people have been thwarted in trying to
> send legitimate messages to the list that were over the previous 200K
> size limit.  Back in the early days of this list**, most users were on
> dialup connections, e-mail was largely plain text and 200K was a large
> message.
>
> These days though, I expect the majority of subscribers have some flavor
> of broadband Internet connection and 200K can be a real challenge when
> sending attachments such as contest announcements, results, entry forms
> and whatnot.  Out of respect to those with slower connections, the list
> still has a size limit, but I've increased it to 500K which would have
> been sufficient to pass all the recently blocked messages on the first try.
>
> If folks really have a problem with the size increase, I'll be glad to
> reconsider - please contact me off list.
>
> ** We're coming up on 11 years of archived pattern know-how and history,
> can you believe that!?
>
> --
> Tom
>
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>
> Tom Simes                                       simestd at netexpress.com
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*Scott A. McHarg*
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