[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Excessive mail to the extreme.
- To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: Excessive mail to the extreme.
- From: Loren Davidson <loren@farwalker.com>
- Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 21:42:38 -0800
- In-reply-to: <LYRIS-100945-21706-2001.02.25-15.09.31--loren#farwalker.com@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Newsgroups: permaculture
At 03:23 PM 2/25/01 -0500, Keith wrote:
>Dear Naomi and Rick,
>I suspect a computer glitch at your end to explain the sending of at least
>5 349 K
>messages (FIVE!!!, after 5 my email download crashed. It doesn't like
>large files for
>some reason) . If it wasn't computer error, you should be ashamed. I
>consider ONE
>unsolicited 349K file to be intrusive and abusive of the list, especially
>when most of
>it is unreadable formatting garbage which is not converted by my browser.
Not only do I agree with Keith...is it possible to configure this list to
both reject file attachments and to restrict postings over a certain
size? I thought Larry had done that at one point...if so, maybe the limit
needs to be set lower. I'd suggest the upper limit be somewhere under 200K.
Loren
Loren Davidson Permaculturist, philosopher, writer
loren@farwalker.com http://www.batnet.com/beauty/
AIM: loren334 ICQ: 65291610
"It's all good." - Sun Bear