[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Binaries on freeciv lists

[Jeff Mallatt <jjm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2001/09/06 05:48 , Christian Knoke wrote:
>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.

Even 100 KB is awfully big for some people.  The "How to Contribute" page
says to upload the patch if it is larger than 40-50 KB.  I'd suggest a 50
KB limit for all lists.

jjm