> Message size limits aren't a feature just of Juno.
>
> There are sites, mostly outside the US that limit mail to 25k.
I can't say I've experienced too many problems with message size limits on
foreign sites, at least not compared to juno and other 'domestic' sites.
(And one of my lists is about 90% addresses outside of the USA.)
> I would set up 2 digest lists. One with your current policy, and one
> that did a digest every 25k or 50k.
Laudable, but not always practical. And I'm not sure how I'd explain the
difference in the two digests to subscribers, either.
One of my lists gets very active during football season, and it is not
unusual for it to have 100 messages in a day, sometimes resulting in a digest
of 200K or more. One of the reasons behind digesting is to avoid having
subscribers flooded with e-mail messages from an active list, as well as
allowing some traffic to be sent during off-peak time periods, assuming such
a concept is valid on the Internet these days. (Subscribers who don't mind
being flooded can subscribe to the non-digested version.)
And while 4 or 5 messages in a day might not be considered a 'flood' by some,
I have another list that has been known to have digests of over a megabyte,
and I've seen individual messages of 100K. (And not binaries.) A 50K digest
limit might cause some messages to get scrambled, as well as result in 20
or more digests being issued in a day.
I have more problems with full mailboxes (especially on CIS), than with
oversized messages. Multiple digests would seem to me to exacerbate that
problem.
My policy at present is to warn new subscribers about the potential for
large digests, and to mention that juno subscribers (among others) may
experience delivery problems.
As to Chuq's problems with some juno subscribers, I think his reaction is
a bit much, but it's his list and I suspect he wouldn't approve of all of my
list administration decisions, either. (And I have on one occasion threatened
to blacklist an entire domain because of two abusive subscribers from it,
but in my case the domain management took appropriate action against them.)
But I'm not sure that juno subscribers have any more leverage with juno
'administration' than we list managers do, because I've not seen any evidence
that there is anyone home there. One of the problems with a 'free' service
is that there isn't any economic leverage by the subscribers. Even AOL has
been known to bend to pressure from its subscribers, and not just class
action suits.
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Mike Nolan
nolan@tssi.com
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