[Lowfer] Two common posting errors- Email size too large andnot a member.

[jrusgrove at comcast.net]

Doug

Thanks for your work 'babysitting' the list!

I agree with your plan to just let the 'non conforming' posts expire with no intervention on your 
part. It's hard to imagine that we've reached 2013 and folks still don't know enough to crop and 
compress their images and check the file size before attaching ... but so it is. Same goes for not 
understanding how e mail incoming/outgoing accounts work. A few minutes study on either subject is 
all it takes.

Thanks again, Doug.

Jay W1VD  WD2XNS  WE2XGR/2  WG2XRS/2


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Reed" <n0nas at amsat.org>
To: "Lowfer" <Lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2013 12:16 AM
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] Two common posting errors- Email size too large andnot a member.


>I just want to remind everyone who is sending attachments to the
> LOWFER remail that there is a 50KB size limit to any email messages
> you send. Anything larger than 50KB total size (message + attachment)
> is automatically caught by the mailer program and notice is sent to me
> asking what to do with it.
>
> I don't even look any more, I just let the message expire and it gets
> dropped without any intervention. So if you send notice of an
> interesting capture but nobody comments about it, you can guess what
> happened..
>
> If you want the best possible chance for the attachment to pass
> through, you need to check beforehand and make sure it is 40KB or less
> in size. That should leave enough "headroom" that the message will go
> through. If you don't check the file size you are probably just
> wasting your time to send the message.....
>
> I say the attachment should be 40KB or less because it will grow a
> MINIMUM of 10% when attached to an email. An image or picture is
> considered to be a binary file type. It must be converted to plain
> text before it can be attached..... The usual growth is about 10% but
> could be a bit more. And if you attach it to a long string of emails,
> those all add to the total size as well....
>
> The other bounce warning I've seen recently is the good old "not a
> list member" message. If you are not a member of the list, you can't
> post to the list. I see this as two common problems....
>
> The first is when a person who is a member of this list posts a
> message and sends it to several other email lists in addition to the
> LOWFER list. Then someone who belongs to the other list hits "Reply
> All" and his message bounces when it hits the LOWFER list. You can't
> do anything to solve this problem except to not cross-post to multiple
> lists in one email....
>
> The "not a list member" bounce is a little more obscure.... Once in
> a while a person will be able to receive email from the list but gets
> a "not a member" bounce when they send a message to the list. The
> usual reason for this is because they signed up for the list with one
> email address, but their outgoing email has a different address on it.
> This is something that usually happens at the ISP level and you may or
> may not be able to fix it without changing your email account on the
> remailer.
>
> The same problem occurs if you use a remailer address to point to your
> real email address like I do.... In this case, my Gmail account allows
> me to put my "@amsat.org" remailer address in the "Reply To" field of
> the outgoing message and I have no problem with any list I belong to.
> But some email accounts don't allow this option and if that is the
> case you will have to change your email account on the LOWFER
> remailer. If you have that problem I highly recommend that you send an
> email "subscribe" message rather than use the web page to subscribe to
> he LOWFER list.
>
> Good luck with your LOWFER activities and happy holidays!
>
> 73, Doug Reed, N0NAS.
> LOWFER volunteer list admin.
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