Attachments [was Re: Code Criticism]

[Christopher Smith]

Neil Schneider wrote:
> Why is it a bad decision? It was done to keep bandwidth at a miminum. Someone
> sending a 1Mb image attachment to the list consumes 1Mb*n bandwidth, where n
> is the number of subscribers. Our bandwidth is donated and it is courtesy to
> reduce the amount of bandwidth through policies that we can enforce. Source
> code is plain text and as such fits fine inside of the body of email.
>   
I know for sure that Mailman has a "maximum message size" setting (as
does postfix/sendmail/qmail, for that matter). If managing bandwidth is
the concern.... isn't it more logical to manage it through that, rather
than through some kind of proxy, like attachments?

--Chris