[Techtoolslist] Poll - Message size! Anyone still on dialup?

[Andrew Welburn]

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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at flippers.com

> http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/techtoolslist

> FTP site is: ftp://ttl.arcadetech.org

> Archive site: http://seven.pairlist.net/pipermail/techtoolslist/