Any message longer than the limit is rejected and returned. Partial messages
are never posted.

I used to have one periodic reminder message I sent to our lists that was
longer than the limit I wanted to use. I ended up changing the headers to
increase the limit, post my reminder, then restore the previous headers with
the standard limit. Eventually I put that info on a web page and switched to
a much shorter reminder.

Sizelim has done wonders for all of our lists.


Steve Pruitt
List Administrator
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Winship [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 18, 1998 10:14 PM
> Subject:      Sizelim=
>
> I've got a question about what Sizelim= actually does.
>
> In the keyword memo for 1.8c, May, 24,'95, it says the offending
> item is truncated, which implies that it is distributed with
> everything over the limit is discarded.  However, I put in a
> sizelimit for one list and ever since them I get the occaisional
> item which, when I approve it, is returned to me because it exceeds
> the limit.  Usually I can get it to through by editing the header,
> maybe rearrange the text to get rid of wasted lines.
>
> So, which is it?  Is the item returned to the poster with a note
> that it is too long (like the rejects I get) or is it truly truncated
> and distributed?
>
> My experience does not seem to agree with the keyword memeo.
>
> Douglas