Gentlemen,
So let this be my test in Plain Text with a long "quote". My thanks as
well for an understandable explanation. Maybe if enough of us complain
Mark will go back to the old method.
Bill Barnett
53BN1M
BJ8Healeys wrote:
> John, I recently had this very problem. My text format was set to HTML for
> non-list reasons, and even when I typed a one-sentence reply to a message
> and deleted the original message completely, my post was rejected as over
> the size limit. Changing my text format to Plain Text solved the problem.
>
> Steve Byers
> HBJ8L/36666
> BJ8 Registry
> Havelock, NC USA
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: healeys-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net]
> On Behalf Of John P. New
> Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 12:03 PM
> To: healeys@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Bouncing e-mails.
>
> Bill and List,
>
> I think many people are likely to see more emails bounced for exceeding the
> list's maximum size because of the recent changes made to the list.
>
> That change means that if the poster's email to the list contains html, it
> will be sent, with html, out to members of the list. Previously, the html
> would have been stripped and sent out only in plain text. When someone
> replies to that email, some email programs may automatically use html to
> compose the reply sent back to the list.
>
> An html message will almost triple the size of an email for 2 reasons:
>
> 1) Because of the presence of html markup (that stuff that you don't see in
> your email reader, but tells the reader what fonts to display, bold,
> italics,
> etc.) the size of the email has to be larger. Depending on how badly the
> email program produces html (and some are REALLY bad), a simple one
> paragraph
> email might exceed the list's maximum size.
>
> 2) Every list message sent in html contains TWO versions of the message: one
>
> in plain text, and one with html formatting. Obviously, this alone will
> almost double the size of the message and make it much easier to go over the
>
> list's size limit.
>
> If Mark (the list maintainer) really wants to keep html messages, he should
> increase the maximum allowed size of a message.
>
> Actually, I would rather Mark reverse the recent change, and NOT allow html
> messages on the list.
>
> John P. New
> London, Ontario, Canada
> '67 BJ8
>
>
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