Brian composed on 2016-05-03 12:08 (UTC+0100):
On Mon 02 May 2016 at 23:43:45 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
thousands of mailing list subscribers. This list's subscribers can see in
the list posting rules that binary attachments are not to be expected unless
of nominal size, thus can feel safe their disk space won't be wasted, and
Avoid sending large attachments.
is the advice:
https://www.debian.org/MailingLists/
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMailingLists#Posting_Rules.2C_Guidelines.2C_and_Tips
says:
"Do not submit an attachment larger than 10 KiB."
The functional gist of the entirety of both URLs includes keeping submissions
modest in size. Images attached virtually always violate that precept.
Nothing about "binary". Nothing about "nominal".
Binary is functionally implied. When was the last time you saw any software
user/help mailing list post arrive with an image attached that was not many
times 10KiB (10KiB is very roughly the average size of a debian-user mailing
list post), or an attachment that was not an image? IME it rarely happens.
Nominal in the context used means modest, something that wouldn't burden the
system by bloating an ordinary plain text email many orders of magnitude.
internet bandwidth won't be wasted, on things a select few have interest in
or will be opening. It's little different than the waste that is HTML
Subscribing to a list means taking the rough with the smooth.
It does not mean liking abuse or never doing anything to dissuade abuse.
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