From john at winhaven.net Sat Oct 29 18:23:42 2005 From: john at winhaven.net (President) Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:23:42 -0500 Subject: [BEU-Support] Administrivia - Message Size Limits Message-ID: <01bf01c5dcdf$cd99beb0$6b01a8c0@ScuzzPaq> Greeting to all list members, The Database Advisors, Inc. Board of Directors has recently approved lowering the size limits of messages on the list to 20k. This is an attempt to encourage the snipping of emails during replies and to reduce the size of the archives in the future. Our archives are getting quite large, hence the cost of storing them is going up. It is unlikely that we will see many messages exceed 20k in size if they are properly snipped. HOWEVER our list moderators will let messages of any size through as long as the following criteria is met: 1. it has been properly snipped 2. it does not contain attachments 3. it was sent using plain text formatting 4. it contains valuable technical information If any of these criteria is not met, the post will be rejected. Please bear in mind that, although it would not be typical of our elite corp. of moderators, it may take moderators up to 24 hours to get to your post to allow it through. We initially experimented with the 20k limit on the Off Topic OT list where posts tend to be long, for the most part because of poor snipping. One other major cause of messages being held due to exceeding the size limit was messages being sent in html or rich text formats. (The size is determined before the html formatting is stripped and presently there is nothing we can do about this.) In the weeks since we reduced the size limit on the OT (where messages are often long winded (to say the least :o)) the number of messages rejected due to exceeding the size limits has dropped to near zero. Because of this we do not foresee a problem with the technical lists but please let us know if you are experiencing any problems because of this limit. We sincerely hope this does not cause any complications in your utilization of this valuable asset. Regards, John Bartow, President Database Advisors, Inc. Email: mailto:president at databaseadvisors.com Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com From listmaster at databaseadvisors.com Thu Dec 22 23:26:40 2005 From: listmaster at databaseadvisors.com (Bryan Carbonnell) Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 00:26:40 -0500 Subject: [BEU-Support] Administrivia - DBA Board of Directors for 2006/2007 Message-ID: <43AB4440.6592.BC669@listmaster.databaseadvisors.com> The Shareholders of Database Advisors, Inc. have just met and elected the Board of Directors for 2006/2007. Congratulations to the new Board of Directors: Donna Cook, Drew Wutka, Jim Lawrence, John Bartow, John Colby, Keith Williamson, Lembit Soobik, Reuben Cummings, Rocky Smolin for John Bartow President, DatabaseAdvisors.com From john at winhaven.net Sat Oct 29 18:23:42 2005 From: john at winhaven.net (President) Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:23:42 -0500 Subject: [BEU-Support] Administrivia - Message Size Limits Message-ID: <01bf01c5dcdf$cd99beb0$6b01a8c0@ScuzzPaq> Greeting to all list members, The Database Advisors, Inc. Board of Directors has recently approved lowering the size limits of messages on the list to 20k. This is an attempt to encourage the snipping of emails during replies and to reduce the size of the archives in the future. Our archives are getting quite large, hence the cost of storing them is going up. It is unlikely that we will see many messages exceed 20k in size if they are properly snipped. HOWEVER our list moderators will let messages of any size through as long as the following criteria is met: 1. it has been properly snipped 2. it does not contain attachments 3. it was sent using plain text formatting 4. it contains valuable technical information If any of these criteria is not met, the post will be rejected. Please bear in mind that, although it would not be typical of our elite corp. of moderators, it may take moderators up to 24 hours to get to your post to allow it through. We initially experimented with the 20k limit on the Off Topic OT list where posts tend to be long, for the most part because of poor snipping. One other major cause of messages being held due to exceeding the size limit was messages being sent in html or rich text formats. (The size is determined before the html formatting is stripped and presently there is nothing we can do about this.) In the weeks since we reduced the size limit on the OT (where messages are often long winded (to say the least :o)) the number of messages rejected due to exceeding the size limits has dropped to near zero. Because of this we do not foresee a problem with the technical lists but please let us know if you are experiencing any problems because of this limit. We sincerely hope this does not cause any complications in your utilization of this valuable asset. Regards, John Bartow, President Database Advisors, Inc. Email: mailto:president at databaseadvisors.com Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com From listmaster at databaseadvisors.com Thu Dec 22 23:26:40 2005 From: listmaster at databaseadvisors.com (Bryan Carbonnell) Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 00:26:40 -0500 Subject: [BEU-Support] Administrivia - DBA Board of Directors for 2006/2007 Message-ID: <43AB4440.6592.BC669@listmaster.databaseadvisors.com> The Shareholders of Database Advisors, Inc. have just met and elected the Board of Directors for 2006/2007. Congratulations to the new Board of Directors: Donna Cook, Drew Wutka, Jim Lawrence, John Bartow, John Colby, Keith Williamson, Lembit Soobik, Reuben Cummings, Rocky Smolin for John Bartow President, DatabaseAdvisors.com