Re: Message size limit

[William Rehwinkel]

The difference between plain and rich text emails is not related to the 
question of size limits, as even the most rich HTML email still has 
negligible size compared to emails with attachments. As for whether 
embedded attachments should get included in replies, in my opinion they 
should not, for the purpose of minimizing the amount of storage space 
used. However, as long as the maximum email size is reasonably small it 
shouldn't be that big of a deal if a reply including attachments goes 
through.

I like the idea of the email size limit, and IMO a smaller limit would 
also be fine, perhaps 128KB.

-William

On 3/4/23 16:02, Saul Tobin wrote:
> Hard disagree on plain text emails.
>
> I didn't really have a strong opinion re the whole discussion about 
> message boards vs. email, but IMO the world has moved on to rich text 
> email with embedded media. I think the reliance on plain text email as 
> the standard for this mailing list detracts significantly from the 
> conversation. Inlining images makes it much easier to communicate 
> typesetting questions and also much easier to quickly respond, 
> especially when viewing messages on a cell phone.
>
> Rich text emails with embedded media should IMO be supported as first 
> class citizens of the mailing list.
>
> Saul
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 4, 2023 at 12:18 PM Valentin Petzel <valentin@petzel.at 
> <mailto:valentin@petzel.at>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Jean,
>
>     I think Robin is talking about embedded images that are quoted on
>     reply,
>     resulting in the same attachment being sent back and forth over and
>     over
>     again.
>
>     Of course this does not matter when you send plain text emails,
>     which should
>     be the sensible choice ...
>
>     Cheers,
>     Valentin
>
>     Am Samstag, 4. März 2023, 16:53:11 CET schrieb Jean Abou Samra:
>      > Le samedi 04 mars 2023 à 16:45 +0100, Robin Bannister a écrit :
>      > > Jean Abou Samra wrote:
>      > > > Hi,
>      > > >
>      > > > We've been informed that the size of messages to this list
>     containing
>      > > > large attachments is occasionally clogging up the GNU list
>     server's
>      > > > mail delivery queue, causing distribution delays (not just
>     for this
>      > > > list, but for everyone on the hundreds of other gnu.org
>     <http://gnu.org> lists).
>      > > >
>      > > > To avoid this, your friendly list admins have configured a
>     max message
>      > > > size of 512KB.>
>      > > Is there any specific advice for users taking screenshots?
>      >
>      > Not sure I understand the question. Why would they differ from
>     other kinds
>      > of attachments?
>      > > Especially inline ones: those get copied when quoted, cf 2021-09.
>      >
>      > What are you referring to precisely? There are lots of messages
>     in the list
>      > archives for September 2021.

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