[Box-Admins] Re: Legitimate Attachment Size

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 24.01.2012, at 20:22, Casey Ransberger wrote:

> While I was clearing out the spam queue (which, due to survival obligations, I can't do as much as I'd like to) I found that all of the messages in the queue which were legitimate were being blocked because of size-of-message. Usually the culprit was attached MC stuff, and it was usually some number of K over the limit. 
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> To my mind, if MC package updates attached to email messages wherein authors want feedback are getting stuck in the spam queue, we have probably two issues:
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> 1) MC archives are fatty. 
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> 2) Since we need to be able to shuffle them around, as well as whole images, our limbo bar isn't tall enough for our current data needs.
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> I haven't looked into it yet, but I'd bet we can modify the size of an acceptable message. I have a personal feeling that we ought to double it. The maximum probably hasn't been looked at for at least one Moore's storage/bandwidth cycle.
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> Thoughts? I'd particularly like to hear from folks who have Mailman experience. And all Box-Admins for good measure. 
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> Sorry to pick on you: Ken, Randal.
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> 
> Just a thought, feel free to shoot me down,
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> C


IMHO the limit is still in order. 

We do have the inbox for submissions of arbitrary size. Also, people could trim down the size of MC packages but saving them as MCD.

My 0.02s2 ...

- Bert -