[AusNOG] Current "Best Practice" WRT email size

[Mark Newton]

On Nov 26, 2015, at 1:41 PM, paul+ausnog at oxygennetworks.com.au wrote:
> Whilst it’s fine to say that the SMTP servers and general bandwidth capacities of ISP’s can easily handle larger messages you also need to take into account the large majority of businesses that still run on ADSL2,

If they’re on ADSL2, why are today’s limits still scaled for dialup modems?

> if you allow large messages then you destroy that bandwidth for 10 mins or whatever depending on the size, that all impacts the productivity of all users on the site.

The argument used to be that the capacity was used for hours or days, so ten minutes is a bit of a yawn.

Have a think about what you’re defending.

  - mark



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