[Wolves] Please Don't......

[Andy Smith]

Hi,

On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 07:45:51PM +0100, Alastair Battrick wrote:
> Adam Sweet wrote:
> >The second, as Andy illustrated (being the sysadmin of
> >the box that this list runs on), is that posting
> >attachments means that the server has to deliver that
> >attachment to all of the list members, including
> >retries and bounces. Which, as he points out, created
> >a 650MB spike in bandwidth usage, which none of us
> >have paid for, but somebody has to.

[...]

> In that case, I suggest the list admin implements a ban on attachments 
> over a desired size threshold

There is one, causing the messages to be held for approval.  However
they were then subsequently approved, I assume by Dave.

Cheers,
Andy
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