[AccessD] Administrivia - List posting size limits

Bryan Carbonnell carbonnb at gmail.com
Mon Oct 29 07:29:29 CDT 2018


Bill,

There are only a few moderators for all of DBA's lists.

Bryan
Your friendly neighbourhood Listmaster

On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 at 01:51, Bill Benson <bensonforums at gmail.com> wrote:

> How many moderators are there?
>
> On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 4:53 PM John Bartow <jbartow at winhaven.net> wrote:
>
> > We encourage snipping <snip> of posts to that which matters for the post
> > to make sense in order to increase readability, reduce noise and reduce
> > post sizes.
> >
> > Usually the size limit is hit because the email is sent in a format other
> > than plain text. Rich formatted email (MS or HTML) is almost always too
> > large for the limit. We increased the size limit of the lists to 20 KB
> per
> > post some years ago. 20kb is a _lot_ of plain text. We would certainly
> > allow a post that needed more than that to get through if contacted about
> > it. I think that has happened once in 10 years.
> >
> > We maintain this limit because there are active members who have
> extremely
> > poor speeds in their part of the world.
> >
> > Unfortunately the rich formatting gets stripped after the limit is
> > determined rather than before or most posts would go right through. There
> > are settings in almost all email systems to set the appropriate DBA list
> > address to use always plain text. I have made numerous posts over the
> years
> > in regards to how to do it in Outlook.
> >
> > Note: our volunteer moderators are very accommodating in allowing posts
> > through - IF you contact them.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > John B
> >
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