From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@cygnus.com>
To: Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: ADMINISTRIVIA: size limit for gdb* mailing list messages?
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 11:24:00 -0000
Message-id: <1010723182420.ZM18333@ocotillo.lan>
References: <20010723131738.A2872@redhat.com> <cgf@redhat.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-07/msg00324.html

On Jul 23,  1:17pm, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> Given the recent spate of viruses showing up here, I'd like to limit the
> sizes of messages to the gdb mailing lists.
> 
> Any thoughts on limitations to the size of messages to the gdb mailing
> lists?
> 
> gcc has a 400K limit.  I think that is a little high for a non-patches
> mailing list.
> 
> How about 150K for gdb and 400K for gdb-patches and gdb-prs?

I think 400k for gdb-patches is too low.

Here are some other ideas on how to combat the problem:

    1) Hold messages above a certain size for moderator approval.

    2) Only allow large messages from mailing list subscribers.

Kevin