Re: Issues relating to managing a mailing list...

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On Thu Mar 15 01:28:00 2012, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
On 2012-03-15 13:33, ned+ietf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> I suppose I could live with this - but not actively support it - if the > stripping was limited to abusively large attachments - say ones over 5Mb or
> thereabouts.

+0.9; maybe set the limit a bit lower, for those who still have network capacity issues. However, it would be extremely inconvenient to have small
attachments stripped.


I'd be against this - any cut-off picked would be an arbitrary number, and given there exist well-deployed, well-supported specifications for accessing internet message stores without downloading all parts of a message, I see no need for this at all.

I'd prefer rejecting outright particularly large messages, to mangling them in unpredictable ways - however, I have been reading IETF lists over expensive and slow networks for years without running into any such messages.


> But otherwise it's a TERRIBLE idea, and will simply result in
> everyone including the draft or whatever in the primary message text in order > to avoid this nonsense, which results in a degradation of list quality for all
> concerned.

+1

Right, we're merely introducing damage for people to route around.

If we're seriously making a statement that messages with attachments cannot be handled properly in the deployed network due to Technical Reason X, then I would be very interested to hear what X is. The message Russ quotes merely suggests that large messages are a problem in themselves - if they are genuinely a problem, how? And why on earth are they a problem in this group?

Dave.
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