From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-01-07T13:48:49+09:00
Subject: Re: A very  humour game

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gavin Sinclair" <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 10:33 PM
Subject: Re: A very humour game


> On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, 3:18:21 PM, Hal wrote:
> 
> >> Should a rule be set up that disallows messages (or attachments) of
> >> greater than, say, 10k being posted to the list?
> 
> > Actually, I'm not sure we're supposed to have
> > attachments at all. Hmm. Guess the FAQ is 
> > silent on that...?
> 
> Mailing lists usually discourage attachments. I personally have no
> problem with them, so long as they're not 100KB+ spam attachments!  I
> don't have a fast connection.
> 
> So automatically dropping large messages would be another spam-filter,
> but I think diplomacy is a better way to discourage genuine
> attachments :)

Well, does this ML have a policy on attachments?
And anyway, what happens when they are echoed to
the NG? Deleted or (horrors) encoded and passed
through?

Hal