[RE-wrenches] Housekeeping - File sizes and dialup

[Michael Welch]

Hi again gang. Any questions or responses should go to me directly, off-list. 

Well, it's been over a week, and I have not heard from any Wrenches that are still on dialup or have very restrictive data allowances. 

I will give it a bit more time, so please get back to me if you have concerns about increasing permissible message sizes on the list.

Michael Welch wrote at 11:17 AM 2/21/2013:
 
>Hi gang. Please send any response or comments to me OFF LIST.
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>Since we have a fair number of folks on this list who live off-grid, we also had several still stuck with dialup internet access. For them, getting large messages was a hassle. Last year I raised the message size limit to 100K, which is large enough to include viewable jpg graphics of about 75K, along with a reasonable amount of text.
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>About once a week, I end up working with folks who attempt to send messages that are larger than that.
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>But now I would like to get a handle on how many of us still have significant restrictions on data, so please let me know. 
>1. For folks on dialup, file attachments can be a drag, time-wise.
>2. For folks like me, whose home internet access is through cell technology, getting large files can end up being expensive, if their usage exceeds the limits of their phone plans.
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>Of course, there are work-arounds for these things, but for now I would like to hear from Wrench list members who are affected by large messages, to see if I can up the limits.