Subject: Re: Raising list size limit

From: Olof Johansson <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:12:08 -0600

On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 09:54:15AM -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
> 
> On Dec 18, 2007, at 6:01 AM, Josh Boyer wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:36:27 +1100
> > Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am considering raising the limit on the size of postings to  
> >> 400k.  Does
> >> anyone have a real problem with this?  Limiting message size was  
> >> done to
> >> limit the damage of larges spams (and we don;t get very many of  
> >> those on
> >> the list) and to ease the pain for people downloading emails over a  
> >> slow
> >> (like dialup) link (and are there many of those left?).
> >
> > Fine by me!
> 
> Do you really have patches that are 400k?

I'm guessing stuff such as "dtc merge" could reach those sizes?

Since it's somewhat common to cross-post patches (especially some of the
@de.ibm.com guys seem to post to 2-5 lists at a time), having a limit
higher than other lists could mean we see the same (large) patches several
times in case they bounce from other lists and get reposted. But it should
be a small fraction of the traffic no matter what.

-Olof