[Talk-GB] Increase of mail size limit

[Alan Mackie]

>
> It's quite normal to include attachments in line with communication (e.g
> an attachment in an email or an attachment in a chat/instant message
> program).

It is, but those tend to be a little more point-to-point rather than
send-to-all. I think most newsletter type things tend to link rather that
attach images.

On Thu, 16 May 2019 at 21:01, Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Personally I don't think that is very user friendly. I can post onto my
> Google drive or upload to the wiki (if it's one of the very few file types
> it supports) but others may not know or be bothered.
>
> It's quite normal to include attachments in line with communication (e.g
> an attachment in an email or an attachment in a chat/instant message
> program). We should allow people the choice so that they are able to do
> what comes naturally to them.
>
> *Rob*
>
>
> On Thu, 16 May 2019 at 13:37, Ed Loach <edloach at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Rob wrote:
>>
>> > Joking aside, please note I'm not asking for much here. A 40kb limit is
>> tiny and
>> > people do breach the limit occasionally. In this instance it was
>> ~500kb. I ended up
>> > having to put the attachments elsewhere but that delayed the post by 24
>> hours
>> > (it was already late and I decided to delay faffing until the next
>> day).
>>
>> I suspect a small limit is designed to discourage attachments, which
>> could be hosted elsewhere and links included.
>>
>> Ed
>>
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