Re: Problem with moderation of messages with patched attached.

Greetings,

* Pavel Borisov (pashkin.elfe@gmail.com) wrote:
> > On Thu, 3 Mar 2022 at 13:28, Pavel Borisov  wrote:
> >> The mail system doesn't have the capability to apply different moderation
> >>> rules for people in that way I'm afraid.
> >>>
> >> Maybe then 2MB for everyone? Otherwise it's not so convenient. Lead to
> >> answers before the questions in the thread [1], seems weird.
> >
> > Then someone will complain if their patch is 2.1MB! How often are messages
> > legitimately over 1MB anyway, even with a patch? I don't usually moderate
> > -hackers, so I don't know if this is a common thing or not.

I do pay attention to -hackers and no, it doesn't come up very often.

> Authors in the mentioned thread [1] bump into this issue while posting all
> 11 versions of a patchset. It is little bit more than 1MB. We can try to
> use .gz and if this doesn't work we report it again.

This patch set really shoudl be broken down into smaller independent
pieces that attack different parts and not be all one big series of
patches.

Thanks,

Stephen