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Nathan Brindle <[log in to unmask]>
Wed, 13 Jan 1999 08:07:00 EST
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On Wed, 13 Jan 1999 00:31:12 -0600 Kenneth Sax said:
>I understand that this parameter can be used to limit the size of posts.
> However, it doesn't appear to stop a clueless subscriber who decides to
>post a .jpeg or .gif attachment to our list.  Can someone please tell me
>how to prevent file attachments (particularly LARGE file attachments) from
>being posted to a list?

It's a sort of a game.  You have to decide what the largest message you
want to go through the list is and set Sizelim= accordingly.  If someone
then posts a message with an attachment that is longer than Sizelim=,
then LISTSERV will reject it.  Otherwise LISTSERV will accept it.  There
is no way to specifically reject attachments other than by overall message
size.  I generally set Sizelim= 400 or less on most of my lists for this
reason.

Nathan

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