[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Binaries on freeciv lists

[Christian Knoke <ChrisK@xxxxxxxx>]

Am Donnerstag,  6. September 2001 09:32 schrieb Reinier Post:
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 01:22:53PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> > We have recently had some Sircam documents mailed to Freeciv lists.
> > On freeciv, it was requested to disable support for binary
> > attachments, which effectively blocks the virulent (and large) part
> > of those posts.  The same can be done for the rest of the lists if
> > desired.  Let me know what you prefer and I'll be glad to configure
> > the lists as appropriate.
> >
> > -- John
>
> The complaints have been about *large* attachments of any kind:
> viruses, but also large Freeciv patches.  They come from people
> with slow/costly connections.  So I think filtering out large
> attachments is good enough.  It doesn't hurt to filter out
> attachments by MIME type or extension.

May I suggest 100 KB as a limit for all lists? 

I checked all mails since Aug 1: only three were bigger than
this and had big pictures, savegames or sound archives attached,
respectively. All others were below 100 KB.

Christian

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