[SAC] safe/good max msg size for mailinglists?

[Eli Adam]

On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 7:16 AM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Sandro Santilli <strk at kbt.io> wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 10:57:11AM +0100, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote:
>>
>>> - is there a security/disk use problem if I would bring the size to.. say
>>> 500K ? Still people have to be carefull...
>
> In the GRASS GIS lists I have put less than 500k, just to avoid that
> users post even uncompressed BMP screenshots around or uncompressed
> log files.
> In an excess case, the mail is kept in the moderator's queue and the
> sender usually gets a "reject" with the explanation to compress stuff
> or better host elsewhere.
>
>> Personally I think images/attachments do not belong to mailing lists
>> but should be rather uploaded somewhere accessible via an URL, or sent
>> to individuals agreeing about receiving them as attachments.

While it is nice to keep mailing list archives small and mostly text,
they are reliably archived.  I've gone back through threads and all
the externally hosted images and other attachments are long gone
greatly reducing the use of the mailing list archive.

Best regards, Eli

>>
>> I don't see a security issue with that though, just annoyance for list
>> subscribers and disk availability (I know it's short on some machines,
>> not sure about the mailing lists one).
>
> ... archive on osgeo6:
> Filesystem                  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/ogdata-mailman   50G   36G   15G  72% /var/lib/mailman
>
> Markus
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