Hard disagree on plain text emails.
I didn't really have a strong opinion re the whole discussion about
message boards vs. email, but IMO the world has moved on to rich text
email with embedded media. I think the reliance on plain text email as
the standard for this mailing list detracts significantly from the
conversation. Inlining images makes it much easier to communicate
typesetting questions and also much easier to quickly respond,
especially when viewing messages on a cell phone.
Rich text emails with embedded media should IMO be supported as first
class citizens of the mailing list.
Saul
On Sat, Mar 4, 2023 at 12:18 PM Valentin Petzel <valentin@petzel.at
<mailto:valentin@petzel.at>> wrote:
Hi Jean,
I think Robin is talking about embedded images that are quoted on
reply,
resulting in the same attachment being sent back and forth over and
over
again.
Of course this does not matter when you send plain text emails,
which should
be the sensible choice ...
Cheers,
Valentin
Am Samstag, 4. März 2023, 16:53:11 CET schrieb Jean Abou Samra:
> Le samedi 04 mars 2023 à 16:45 +0100, Robin Bannister a écrit :
> > Jean Abou Samra wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > We've been informed that the size of messages to this list
containing
> > > large attachments is occasionally clogging up the GNU list
server's
> > > mail delivery queue, causing distribution delays (not just
for this
> > > list, but for everyone on the hundreds of other gnu.org
<http://gnu.org> lists).
> > >
> > > To avoid this, your friendly list admins have configured a
max message
> > > size of 512KB.>
> > Is there any specific advice for users taking screenshots?
>
> Not sure I understand the question. Why would they differ from
other kinds
> of attachments?
> > Especially inline ones: those get copied when quoted, cf 2021-09.
>
> What are you referring to precisely? There are lots of messages
in the list
> archives for September 2021.