[Healeys] Bouncing e-mails.

Mr. Bill bn1 at pacbell.net
Thu Mar 12 12:04:19 MST 2009


Gentlemen,

So let this be my test in Plain Text with a long "quote".  My thanks as 
well for an understandable explanation.  Maybe if enough of us complain 
Mark will go back to the old method.

Bill Barnett
53BN1M

BJ8Healeys wrote:
> John, I recently had this very problem.  My text format was set to HTML for
> non-list reasons, and even when I typed a one-sentence reply to a message
> and deleted the original message completely, my post was rejected as over
> the size limit.  Changing my text format to Plain Text solved the problem.
> 
> Steve Byers
> HBJ8L/36666
> BJ8 Registry
> Havelock, NC  USA
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net]
> On Behalf Of John P. New
> Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 12:03 PM
> To: healeys at autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Bouncing e-mails.
> 
> 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
> 
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