At 14:18 6/21/2007 Thursday, Russ Hunt wrote:
>20,000 lines?  I suppose I can imagine a situation where a
>message that size -- graphics, I imagine -- might be appropriate
>to a listserv, but it's pretty difficult.  Pete Weiss suggests
>alternatives, and so would I (put it on a Web site): both
>because messages that long have consequences for lists and
>archives, and because a size limit that high is likely to allow
>pretty well anything, including viruses, onto the list.

Recently, I've changed my lists' default SIZELIM from 250 lines to 500 ... it was too difficult to tell folks how not to send both plain and styled text to lists. No one is whining now ;-)

/Pete .