In a previous post, it was noted that file attachments to posts to
unicycling@winternet.com are not permitted. To help enforce this limit posts
exceeding 64KB have been rejected and will continue to be rejected.
There are many reasons for these limits:
-
rec.sport.unicycling (which unicycling@winternet.com is a gateway to) is a
text only newsgroup. Non-text and encoded (base64, uucode, etc.) text are not
permitted on rec.sport.unicycling -
Many people have small mail boxes which could become full after a single post
with a very large attachment (> 1MB) or a few large attachments (> 64KB). -
Many people have only a single analog phone connection which can vary greatly
in line quality resulting in speeds from 9600 bits per second to 53000 bits
per second (960-5300 bytes per second). Downloading a single 1MB post will
take more than 1000 seconds (about 17 minutes!) at 960 bytes per second. -
Some people still pay per KB charges for their ISP services or phone charges.
As an alternative to posting attachments you can put them on a web or ftp site
and include the URL in your post to the mailing list/newgroup.
When you post e-mail messages to unicycling@winternet.com or
rec.sport.unicycling, please keep these limits in mind and reasons for them.
Sincerely,
Ken Fuchs <kfuchs@winternet.com>, unicycling@winternet.com list owner