[X-Newbies] Re: Your message to X-Newbies awaits moderator approval

[Brian Durant]

On 11/20/06, Robert MacLeay <robertmacleay at mac.com> wrote:
> On 11/19/06 2:45 PM, "Steven Rogers" <srogers1 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>
> > On Nov 19, 2006, at 3:34 PM, Mark Gibson wrote:
> >
> >> Can you perhaps send as plain text instead of HTML? That should
> >> reduce the message size?
> >
> > But message size seems like a pretty
> > weak indicator of a legitimate vs. non-legitimate message.
>
> As is often the case, there is more going on here than meets the eye.
>
> Brian's message did not seem to be that long to me, so I dumped it into a
> word processor and checked.  It is only 1893 characters long!
>
> But...
>
> It's header is 3199 characters, for a total of 5092.
>
> This is not atypical; I looked at the size of several other messages, and
> all the headers are huge. Furthermore, a lot of it is administrivia added on
> by themacintoshguy's server.
>
> This is clearly a case for our listmom; a practical message limit of 1.9K is
> ridiculous.

Thanks guys. I have now figured out how to write a plain text message
in Gmail. I don't mind reducing the message, as long as it is logical,
but it is typical that in a panic situation (like the one that I am
still in), when you are having to write e-mails in an unfamiliar
program or method, it shouldn't be necessary to have to worry about
how small the posting is - particularly because panic/rescue e-mails
are often information packed.

I have never before come across another list (except the ones that
have the same owner as this one) that limits e-mail size. The
macintoshguy lists used to be vibrant and active, but now there is
hardly anyone that posts.

Cheers,

Brian