[BWNA] ADMIN: Please Do Not Forward Msgs W/Large Attachments

[Rob Vaughn]

The BWNA server and mailing list is run off a home system, and as more and
more people use email and attachments and such get larger and larger, I do
understand that most people these days shoot off email with very large
attachments.  Too keep the system from being overloaded, there was a 140K
limit on message size that I raised this weekend to 250K.  This should be
large enough for small photos and Word documents.

Today this message was blocked:

>Pending posts:
>From: albertkaufman at gmail.com on Mon Feb 19 13:39:36 2007
>Subject: Fwd: Fun Family Entertainment @ PGE Park!
>Cause: Message body is too big: 623976 bytes with a limit of 250 KB

Please note that with 50 members, this amounts to almost 30MB of data sent
out for a single message.

If this continues, we will have to move the server to a monthly paid service,
and the inexpensive ones have serious limits on how much bandwidth you can use
per month before you accrue serious penalty charges.

As such, the limit of 250K per message should be plenty, so please remove any
unnecessary attachments, etc. from messages or convert them to much smaller
formats before sending them.  Thank you.

Cheers, Rob V.

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robv at sound-o-mat.com