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Date: | Mon, 10 Apr 1995 02:43:19 +0200 |
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The way my copy of the code reads, the message is sent only to the list
owner. However, there is a general rule that when a message causing a
problem of some kind exceeds X lines, only the first X lines are sent and
the message is transferred to the postmaster in case it needs to be
retried later. In that case the postmaster is of course informed. The
current value of X was 100, probably because it made sense when this code
was written. I'm going to increase it to 500 because that's more in line
with the kind of quotas list owners have nowadays. However, the original
problem will remain, because a typical value for MAILMAXL is between 5000
and 10000 lines, so your typical bounce is a message of several hundred
kilobytes. It's not reasonable to just toss the thing into the list
owner's mailbox, in fact chances are it wouldn't be accepted by the
owner's mail system due to its size. And LISTSERV has to do something
with the message in case it turns out to be useful. Since you can't make
any assumption about which mail system will handle messages of what size,
the only safe thing to do is to keep it locally.
I'm not sure I understand John's message about the FAQ. Do you mean you
have a FAQ that's longer than 5-10k lines? If so, wouldn't it be more
reasonable to put the FAQ on file and send a shorter message telling
people how to get it?
Eric
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