Posting limitation or not? [was Re: drivers]

Vizion vizion at vizion.occoxmail.com
Sun May 29 18:22:59 PDT 2005


On Sunday 29 May 2005 18:03,  the author Greg 'groggy' Lehey contributed to 
the dialogue on-
 Re: drivers: 

>On Sunday, 29 May 2005 at 17:53:14 -0700, Vizion wrote:
>> On Sunday 29 May 2005 17:40,  the author Tim Aslat contributed to the
>> dialogue on-
>>
>>  Re: drivers:
>>> On Mon, 30 May 2005 10:03:03 +0930
>>>
>>> Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>>> I suppose it's reasonable.  On the other hand, in my recollection this
>>>> is the first time this has happened.
>>>
>>> Maybe it's the first, but I'm guessing it won't be the last. Now that
>>> people have seen its possible, we can probably expect some individuals
>>> to gain some small amusement by sending huge attachments to the list.
>>>
>>> I propose that we decide on a realistic size limit for freebsd-*
>>> mailing lists.  My suggestion is 500K.
>>
>> For what its worth could I suggest an intermediate course -- if it happens
>> again then put a limit - I suppose I am wondering whether quick action on
>> isolated cases does not lead to "bad" precedents!! It strikes me as going
>> down the slippery slope towards over regulation -- I dunno I suggest it be
>> slept on
>
>In fact, what you're suggesting is more regulation.  Intelligent, yes,
>but it means more work.

I do not see how it can be more regulation to not bring in a regulation as a 
knee jerk reaction.
>
>I've sent a message to the FreeBSD postmaster suggesting a limit of
>100 kB.  My reasoning for this relatively low limit: nobody's going to
>look at much more anyway, and it will "encourage" people to quote
>carefully :-)

I dunno -- I think what was in the back of my mind is the fact there are far 
tooopoo many cases of people NOT providing enuf information - that causes 
everyone more problems than people providing too much information..

My two pennorth

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