[Wolves] Posting with Attachments

Andy Smith andy at lug.org.uk
Tue Nov 28 10:43:52 GMT 2006


On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 09:05:31AM +0000, Adam Sweet wrote:
> 
> --- Peter Evans <zen8486 at zen.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Is there a problem/restriction posting to the list
> > with an attachment?  I sent 
> > something late yesterday afternoon in the Code Break
> > thread, but it doesn't 
> > seem to have reached it.
> 
> When people send attachments it tends to get caught up
> in the list software for some reason, it's happened
> before and caused a go slow until it has been
> delivered. I don't know why this is. lug.org.uk
> replaced their hardware a few months back so things
> should be better.

Given that the attachment he sent was over 60K in size and normally
there is a limit of about 40K I expect it was held for moderation.
Quite rightly so, since posting 60KiB to a large mailing list is a
bit of a waste of everyone's bandwidth.

Cheers,
Andy
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