[Rhodes22-list] List Moderator, John Lock

[John Lock]

Hi Chris,

Yes, that's very likely the case.  Internet e-mail protocols cannot 
transmit binary files.  So, attachments are encoded in a special way to 
turn them into plain ASCII text and then decoded at the other end.  
However, the encoding process inflates the file size, so it's very 
common for a file to grow 50% to 100% over it's original size for 
transmission.  That's why you are seeing a difference in the numbers.  
Sorry, but it's something I cannot control.  Unfortunately there isn't 
any way to determine ahead of time what the inflation factor will be 
since it depends on the content of the attachment.

Since your file is right on the edge of the limit, I can go ahead and 
approve it to go thru.  For future attachments, there are several 
alternatives to try:

1) Reduce the image size slightly to get the total package under the 
size limit.
2) Post the file to Facebook or some other web service and send a link 
to the list.
3) Break the pages up in to part 1, part 2, etc. and post them separately.

-- 
Cheers!
John Lock
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s/v Pandion - '79 Rhodes 22
Lake Sinclair, GA
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On 2011-09-05 01:34, Chris Geankoplis wrote:
> John Lock,
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>              I tried to send the Desolation Sound week 1 journal and I got
> the following:
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> "Message body is too big: 5373308 bytes with a limit of 5120 KB"
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> The file shows on the email as 4MB but it seems that the list thinks it is
> about 1,350 times bigger.
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> Chris G
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