Re: Adjusted the hackers mailing list

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com> wrote:
> I'm sure there's a relevant RFC somewhere about the lengths, but it's
> kind of a moot point. In all my years of moderating (and I've been at
> this longer than anyone except Marc at this point, I think), I've
> never seen a header long enough to warrant 10240.

That's precisely my point. If we raise it to that we'll probably never
have to worry about it again. If you raise it to some smaller value
just large enough for the current violators it'll come up again
sometime and we won't have accomplished much.

I'm on a hundreds of mailing lists, this is the only place where I've
seen where people keep bumping into all these arcane limits. Either
other mail server software don't impose these limits or they're
generally set high enough that you never bump into them. We seem to
have lots of these limits set just barely high enough to let 99% of
our mail go through but regularly annoy us with unnecessary problems.

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greg