I subscribe to a number of reflectors, and to the best of my knowledge,
there is a message length limit on each and everyone of them.  Setting a
maximum line count on postings is necessary to keep threads from growing and
growing, wasting storage and bandwidth at each step in the chain.
Maintaining a forum without a maximum line count, or limiting the size of
postings one way or another, is silly.  Most posters to forums don't take
the time to cut messages down to size when replying, and before long, the
resulting length of each post would choke the resources available to store
and distribute each one.

Alan/KD7GC



Alan R. Downing
Phoenix, AZ


-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Ron Canazzi
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2014 11:17 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Fwd: Rejected posting to [log in to unmask]

Hi Blind Hams List,

There has been a lot of criticism of the way in which the Blind Hams 
list has been handling 8 bit or 7 bit characters that result in all the 
equal signs and other extraneous symbols.  Here's one I didn't realize 
was also a bit of a problem.

I wanted to send the entire copy (511 lines) of the ruling that Gary, 
KB2YAA requested and thought that it would be a courtesy to send it to 
the whole list.  Instead I get a rejection notice from the server 
sayhing that it is too long.

Keep in mind, there is no attachment or other superfluous graphics of 
stuff that would make this message large in actual size, but the length 
of the message in lines is apparently an issue.

This is the only list where I have ever seen this.  I really wish it 
could be changed to conform to modern standards.  I will have to send 
the message separately to Gary and thus deprive anyone else who is 
interested.

See below.



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Rejected posting to [log in to unmask]
Date: 	Tue, 18 Mar 2014 02:02:09 -0400
From: 	[log in to unmask]
To: 	Ron Canazzi <[log in to unmask]>



Your message  cannot be distributed to  the BLIND-HAMS list because  it
exceeds
the maximum message size of 250 lines. The size of your message was 511
lines.

This limit has been set by the list owner and does not necessarily apply to
the
other lists  hosted at  LISTSERV.ICORS.ORG. If you  have any  questions,
please
contact the list owner at [log in to unmask]