Re: Poll - Message size! Anyone still on dialup?

Uh....yeah, that wasn't too smart.....leaving that full directory listing in there....sorry guys :S

Thanks John !

Op 12 dec. 2012, om 23:33 heeft Andrew Welburn <andy@andysarcade.net> het volgende geschreven:

> Good on you John :)
>
> As a legacy from the dial up days, I still try and trim emails that I reply to, but that last message I neglected to spot. Back in those days it really was poor form not to trim a message you had quoted, similarly if you replied with a one liner, even worse! I'm placing the blame this time on the one-liner who asked the question but didn't trim! I was responding to his message, not thinking he had quoted the whole directory listing underneath :)
>
> Right now I'm on my phone (gasp!) and going below my typing area now and trimming the message is not really quick or feasible.
>
> My word, how times have changed :)
>
> Andrew Welburn (mobile)
> www.andys-arcade.com
>
> On 12 Dec 2012, at 21:25, Martin White <martin@guddler.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Don't see why not. As I just put in a separate mail, most modern mail clients will handle any size issues themselves these days...
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: John Robertson
>> Sent: 12/12/2012 21:07
>> To: techtoolslist@flippers.com
>> Subject: [Techtoolslist] Poll - Message size! Anyone still on dialup?
>>
>> It has come to my attention that the restrictions imposed on the list
>> from when it started in Nov of 1999 may not be valid any more...I had
>> set the maximum message size to 40K as a number of people were on dialup
>> and complained bitterly about the wasted bandwidth.
>>
>> So, UNLESS someone sends me a private email to say no, I am going to
>> open the gate to (dare I say) 500kb which I think is sufficient for 2012
>> folks. This will allow a zipped disk image for example...
>>
>> If others want to argue for even larger emails feel free to carry the
>> discussion on TTL.
>>
>> Your ever suffering moderator,
>>
>> John ;-#)#
>> _______________________________________________
>> Techtoolslist mailing list
>> Techtoolslist@flippers.com
>> http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/techtoolslist
>> FTP site is: ftp://ttl.arcadetech.org
>> Archive site: http://seven.pairlist.net/pipermail/techtoolslist/
>> _______________________________________________
>> Techtoolslist mailing list
>> Techtoolslist@flippers.com
>> http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/techtoolslist
>> FTP site is: ftp://ttl.arcadetech.org
>> Archive site: http://seven.pairlist.net/pipermail/techtoolslist/
> _______________________________________________
> Techtoolslist mailing list
> Techtoolslist@flippers.com
> http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/techtoolslist
> FTP site is: ftp://ttl.arcadetech.org
> Archive site: http://seven.pairlist.net/pipermail/techtoolslist/

André Huijts
andre.huijts@upcmail.nl

_______________________________________________
Techtoolslist mailing list
Techtoolslist@flippers.com
http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/techtoolslist
FTP site is: ftp://ttl.arcadetech.org
Archive site: http://seven.pairlist.net/pipermail/techtoolslist/
Received on Wed Dec 12 18:03:26 2012