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Date: | Sat, 9 Dec 1995 10:52:17 -0500 |
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Eric:
You said, first quoting me:
> >FULLHDR settings increase the volume of each message
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> We're talking about a total of maybe another 100k of data in an active
> user's mailbox. If you have 10,000 users, it will add up to a whole
> gigabyte :-)
I am not sure if I understand you here. It sounds like you are agreeing
that setting subscriptions to FULLHDR just to be able to get the MIME
header lines is a solution that creates a disk space problem for most
system administrators (in addition to the too many hop issue I already
addressed):
> >and, in some cases, result in the message having a header that exceeds
> >the maximum hop count for the reciving mail systems, causing
> >non-delivery.
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> That's a problem with the receiving mail system, not with LISTSERV. The
> 17 hop limit dates back to the early 80s. The users who are impacted will
> complain to their local system administrators, who are the people with
> the ability to change this setting.
Well... forcing everyone on the planet to change their system
configuration to allow more than 17 hops in a header seems like a rather
excessive position when all you need is three extra lines that would not
add to the hop count at all but *would* allow people to actually READ the
messages delivered by LISTSERV instead of having them be garbage. For
lists that support international dialog, I think that the default
subscription method would be set to MIMEHDR, which would be the SHORTHDR,
plus the three MIME lines. I cannot believe it's that hard to program it
nor can I see the validity of your philosophical objections:
> Let's face it, there will always be people who use 10 year old hardware
> or software, but you can't hold progress because of them.
Lets face it too that, as good as LISTSERV is, if you ignore the
real-world requirements in favor of adhering to an abstract philosophy,
other programs will come along which *will* be happy to address these
important issues. At the very least, it makes using LISTSERV more
difficult for a definable segment of Internet users.
Cheers
Mark Hunnibell Email: [log in to unmask]
KIDLINK Gopher/WWW Coordinator http://www.connix.com/~markh/index.html
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