drivers

Greg 'groggy' Lehey grog at FreeBSD.org
Sun May 29 17:33:07 PDT 2005


On Monday, 30 May 2005 at  9:39:04 +0930, Tim Aslat wrote:
> On Mon, 30 May 2005 08:42:26 +0930
> Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>
>> Nowhere is a good place to send 10 MB of illegible log output.  Please
>> don't.
>
> I agree.
>
>> Do you really expect people to read this?  It's incorrectly coded, and
>> it's far too long.  Many people pay for their mail; you have cost me
>> personally $2.00 to download this message.
>
> Knowing what kind of setup you have Greg, I can believe that.
>
> Although it has opened up a rather large can of worms.  Can the list
> maintainers restrict message sizes to less than a meg?  I honestly
> can't imagine any possible reason for sending an attachment larger than
> 500K (shar files, etc) to a public mailing list.
>
> Is it worth looking into doing this, or am I barking up the wrong
> metaphor?

I suppose it's reasonable.  On the other hand, in my recollection this
is the first time this has happened.

Greg
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