[olug] 40K limit on images

Jon Larsen jon at jonlarsen.us
Wed Apr 20 09:36:03 CDT 2016


Dan, your question on hosting the images on the website falls into the same
realm of storage.  The website and the list are hosted on the same box.

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Jon Larsen <jon at jonlarsen.us> wrote:

> The list is hosted on a linode vps, so disk is limited.  The concern is
> storage of the list archives if we up the message limit.  While I wouldn't
> mind upping the limit, it's ultimately up to Brian, who is billed for the
> VPS.  There is a page for donations, but I don't know how many donations
> OLUG has received (not my area), so I cannot answer any questions related
> to that.  http://www.olug.org/donate/
>
> Jon L.
>
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 9:26 AM, Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:
>
>> On another mailing list I manage (lightly) we have raised the limit to
>> 250K
>> - well below the 1.5-2MB size that most smartphones capture, but
>> sufficient
>> if you need to attach a photo.
>>
>> One idea I floated by the host support line is automatically stripping the
>> attachments, replacing them with a URL and hosting them on our website.
>> That way we have control over how much we keep, plus people can feel free
>> to attach lots of photos and the server only has to send the smaller URL
>> enhanced email.  Since the list provider is separate from the website I'll
>> probably have to write some glue code or create a directory for them to
>> write into with a user/password combo or ssh keys (still working out the
>> details).
>>
>> Is this something we can look into with the OLUG mailing list system?
>>
>> Just a thought...
>> Dan
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 9:08 AM, Justin Reiners <justin at hotlinesinc.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > sorry!
>> >
>> > On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 9:07 AM, Jon Larsen <jon at jonlarsen.us> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Hi folks,
>> > >
>> > > Just a reminder that the OLUG list has a limit of 40K for messages.
>> When
>> > > you attach images, you're maxing out the message limit, which can
>> delay
>> > > your posts as I cannot always peruse each message waiting for approval
>> > > every day.
>> > >
>> > > Maybe post a link to the image?
>> > >
>> > > Jon L.
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