[Healeys] Bouncing e-mails.

[John P. New]

Bill and List,

I think many people are likely to see more emails bounced for exceeding the 
list's maximum size because of the recent changes made to the list.

That change means that if the poster's email to the list contains html, it 
will be sent, with html, out to members of the list. Previously, the html 
would have been stripped and sent out only in plain text. When someone 
replies to that email, some email programs may automatically use html to 
compose the reply sent back to the list.

An html message will almost triple the size of an email for 2 reasons:

1) Because of the presence of html markup (that stuff that you don't see in 
your email reader, but tells the reader what fonts to display, bold, italics, 
etc.) the size of the email has to be larger. Depending on how badly the 
email program produces html (and some are REALLY bad), a simple one paragraph 
email might exceed the list's maximum size.

2) Every list message sent in html contains TWO versions of the message: one 
in plain text, and one with html formatting. Obviously, this alone will 
almost double the size of the message and make it much easier to go over the 
list's size limit.

If Mark (the list maintainer) really wants to keep html messages, he should 
increase the maximum allowed size of a message.

Actually, I would rather Mark reverse the recent change, and NOT allow html 
messages on the list.

John P. New
London, Ontario, Canada
'67 BJ8

On March 11, 2009 07:48 pm, Mr. Bill wrote:
> It seems like every time I try to quote a previous e-mail, even though
> the quotes are very small, the e-mail bounces as being too large.  When
> I don't quote the previous e-mails, the posts go right through.
>
> Is this the same problem other people are having?
>
> Bill