[AccessD] Administrivia - List posting size limits

Bill Benson bensonforums at gmail.com
Mon Oct 29 00:50:37 CDT 2018


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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