Re: [boost] Attachements no longer allowed

From: Beman Dawes (beman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-05-15 10:05:28

At 08:54 PM 5/14/00 -0400, Kevin Atkinson wrote:

>I think you are over reacting.  How about simply not allowing large
>attachments over say 32k or so.  Small inline attachments are
>quite useful as they can allow the source code to be easily
separated from
>the message.  Besides, it is never a good idea to open an attachment
that
>is an executable, and there is no reason for an excitable attachment
in
>boost.  If you limit attachment size to say 32k then it would pretty
much
>rule out executables.

eGroups doesn't currently have a size based option for attachments.

Maybe I am overreacting.  But let's try it a while.

--Beman