To all that responded: Thanks! It appears I did misread the message. Sorry, Dan Frezza, SFO > At 11:01 AM 7/8/98 -0400, Dan Frezza wrote: > >Dear Listowners, > > > > Recently, I have had to deal with a person with a "Yahoo" account, whose > >service appears to be very limited, in terms of storage space. I wonder if > >others had the same problem as I: limited storage space -- over 5k, or is > >this an error message because the sum total of all error messages exceeds a > >specified amount, that's not 5k? Not sure I have a full understanding here. > > > > I know some services, such as "Juno," appears to have a limited storage > >space for their subscribers, which I am not sure, but the last time I > >checked, it was something over 60k. However, the last few days, I have been > >getting error messages from an account on "Yahoo" that has limited space of > >5k? > > No, you mis-read the message. > > Yahoo's quota is (I think) 3 Mbytes (you can check for sure at > http://mail.yahoo.com ) > > > Notice below, at the last line of the error message, that since the original > >message is over 5k in length, it gets truncated to 1k. > > If you'd sent a "short" message, it would have spit it all back at you with > the error. Since your message was "long", it truncated the quoted-back part > *in the error message* to 1K. (This seems to me to be a reasonable treatment > rather than to always or never send back the whole message quoted, at least > in the absence of DSN implementation on both sides.) > > If the user had been under quota, (s)he would have received your whole > message. > > BTW, the 60k you remember for Juno was (is?) a per-message limit, not a > quota. > > [snip] > > > Sounds like this is going to be more work for listowners in the long run if > >some of the services, such as juno.com, yahoo.com, etc.. start crunching down > >on their storage space. > > I don't think there's any crunching going on; however, mail volume probably > continues to increase, and junk like HTML in mail eats up quotas much more > rapidly. > > Cheers, > Stan Dan Frezza <[log in to unmask]> PGP -- An envelope for your email PGP Public Key on Server