[HAM] More than you want to know...

[Don Erickson]

On Sun, 26 Nov 2006, Kon Zissis wrote:

> Again my last attempt to post the Part 2-A of my post was unsuccessful
> because only the quotes from Ian Hooper and Paul Peters appeared but my
> own text did not appear.

This is what I think is happening:

For starters, there's a 40K limit on posts.  If the post is larger than 
40K, (I just changed it a few days ago from 30K) nothing is posted but the 
post is held for our crack team of moderator/administrator types to pass 
final judgement on it.  They (we) can send it on to the list, reject it 
with a note to the author explaining why, delete it, or leave it sitting 
in the queue until it becomes 1845 in Arkansas.

Many of Kon's posts seem to bump up against this limit.  So, part of Kon's 
confusion is a result of posting something on Tuesday that shows up in his 
mailbox on Thursday.  The reason that I don't automatically send out a 
rejection notice is because most of the filtered mail is spam and so if I 
did that, I'd clog up my outgoing queue for 5 days trying to send 
rejection notices to addresses that don't exist.

However, that's not what is happening here.  Although I did delete three 
of four posts from Kon that exceeded the 40K limit yesterday, that was 
only because he had posted the same thing so many times that I was very 
confident that those posts were duplicates.

The "truncated" post was actually sent to the list, but was not properly 
posted to the archives.  This is because Kon's text started with the 
text string ">From " which is precisely the text string that the archiving 
software looks for as a delimiter between different posts ( the mbox unix 
format ).  Posts are never truncated either to the list or the archives, 
unless a "bug" like this one is hit.

So, the list saw the posts fine, if you can consider multiple 
redundancy fine, but the archives are confused.


Regards,

-Don, and confused and confused and confused.