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Dear subscribers,
I received nine responses, all of which were strongly in favor of
the "no attachment policy" for Biomch-L. One subscriber suggested
that postings in HTML could be useful, but for now this is
still discouraged.
It is unfortunately not possible to configure the listserver to
reject attachments, but it was possible to set a maximum length
for postings. This has been added to the Biomch-L Guide:
Postings longer than 500 lines will be automatically rejected by the
list server, but you may split up a posting into multiple messages,
if needed. This limit will help enforce the no-attachment policy.
It is not foolproof, but at least the very large attachments will
no longer be possible. The number of lines for a binary file
attachment is a result of the encoding. One kilobyte is equivalent
to approximately 20 lines.
I thank Mike Whittle for his suggestion to use the listserver
features.
-- Ton van den Bogert, Biomch-L co-moderator
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I received nine responses, all of which were strongly in favor of
the "no attachment policy" for Biomch-L. One subscriber suggested
that postings in HTML could be useful, but for now this is
still discouraged.
It is unfortunately not possible to configure the listserver to
reject attachments, but it was possible to set a maximum length
for postings. This has been added to the Biomch-L Guide:
Postings longer than 500 lines will be automatically rejected by the
list server, but you may split up a posting into multiple messages,
if needed. This limit will help enforce the no-attachment policy.
It is not foolproof, but at least the very large attachments will
no longer be possible. The number of lines for a binary file
attachment is a result of the encoding. One kilobyte is equivalent
to approximately 20 lines.
I thank Mike Whittle for his suggestion to use the listserver
features.
-- Ton van den Bogert, Biomch-L co-moderator
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