On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 09:47:57AM -0400, John C Klensin wrote: > Borrowing a bit from Randy, the solution to really large > attachments is to ban them. Personally, I'd find it perfectly > reasonable to have any message in the megabyte range or above > (or probably even an order of magnitude smaller) rejected with a > message that amounted to "if you have that much to say, write an > I-D, post it, and point to it". [...] > > If people want to use up part of their maximum size quota by > posting html in addition to text, or appending long disclaimers > or autobiographies, that shouldn't the community's problem. I strong concur with all points (including those elided). Attachments which are in open formats and of modest size are often useful; those which are in closed formats and of enormous size tend not to be. ---rsk