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

[Robert Ameeti]

At 10:27 AM -0600, 11/21/06, Steven Rogers wrote:

>Right, but pointing that out is a convenient way to avoid addressing 
>whether a 5k limit better serves newbie X users than say a 20k or 
>50k. Or why 5k should be enough to sustain a normal on-topic 
>discussion.

I just peeked at my list server and the 20 messages that are waiting 
to go out are all 8K on hard drive space (due to an old hard drive 
and its minimum file size) but the real sizes of the messages are:

5 @ 1K
3 @ 2K
6 @ 3K
4 @ 4K

Larger file sizes are allowed but given that all of the current 
messages are under 5K and I have no complaints from any of my listees 
tells me that if I were to have a 5K limit, it wouldn't be apparently 
impact many users. If I can satisfy my listees with a 5K limit (which 
I haven't bothered to have), then so be it. Larger messages may 
impact others more than they impact you.

>unless the list is really about teaching people how to post the 
>"right" way, and not about helping OS X newbies.

Sometimes helping newbies is showing them the right way to do things 
including how to post to a list. Where else do you expect them to 
learn proper list etiquette?
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Robert Ameeti

An authority is somebody who can tell you more about something than you really care to know.
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