[Az-Geocaching] Re:message with excessive kilobytes.

[Brian Cluff]

I noticed that, just after I sent the message.  I was reading them in order 
and didn't bother to skim ahead to see about those things.  Thanks for doing 
that, it really helps a lot with bandwith, especially on our end.  We have to 
send the message out over 150 times, so the bandwith quickly add up for us as 
well.  Can you imagine the list without the limitation...  Someone could not 
be paying attention and accidentally attach 10 megs worth of pictures onto a 
e-mail, and then we would have to send out 1.5 gigabytes of mail.  The even 
worse part is that with a 10 meg message, most service providers won't even 
accept it, so we would get around 100-ish bounces (that I would get coppies 
of, overloading my mailbox), so in reality it would end up with the server 
having to deal with 3-5 gigs of mail.

Anyway, thanks again.

Brian

On Monday 18 November 2002 01:38 pm, Pat Thompson wrote:
> Hi Brian,
>
> I realized shortly after I sent the message and received the notice that
> the moderator was going to make decision about whether the message would
> be forwarded that I better do something about the size. So, I reduced
> the size by eliminating all of the other messages that I had unwittingly
> left attached to the original message, and sent it again. It was
> accepted without a problem.
>
> I wasn't aware of the size limitation when I sent the message, but I
> agree with you that reducing the size is definitely a courtesy that
> needs to be extended to just about everybody.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> All the best,
>
> Pat Thompson
>
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