Re: debian-printing and attachment size
On Sun, 12 Jun 2016, Brian Potkin wrote:
> I subscribe to debian-printing, I also triage bugs in the printing
> system every now and then. These bugs usually appear in
> debian-printing and it is very convenient for me to monitor their
> appearance there.
Thanks for working on triaging these bugs!
> However, on a small number of occasions the initial bug report does
> not show up in -printing. This happened yesterday with #827040. I
> surmise the reason was the 270K attachment it carried. The only reason
> I became aware of the report was a subsequent mail the reporter sent
> to control@b.d.o.
Yeah; debian-printing is using the default message size limit for
mailing lists. We can bump it up if that's useful, but in general,
sending large attachments is a problem, because mailing lists multiply
attachments. [IE, if you send a 1M attachment to -devel, we're going to
(potentially) send out gigabytes of attachments to the subscribers.]
However, since there aren't that many subscribers on -printing, we could
definitely increase the limit.
> As far as I am concerned a change would enhance my workflow but maybe
> other users of -printing see the proposal as having a negative impact
> on the list.
Unless someone has an issue, I can bump up the size limit for this
mailing list. If I don't hear any objections (please send them to
listmaster@lists.debian.org) I'll bump up the limit to 512K.
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