[Mailman-Users] a ? from United Nations Cyberschoolbus

Greg Ward gward at mems-exchange.org
Tue Nov 13 00:00:27 CET 2001


On 12 November 2001, Colleen Werthmann said:
> I have never used our Mailman before, and I'm the sort of asst. admin
> person for it.  My question is this:  The message I posted and want to send
> out is quite long (a newsletter for our users). When I went to approve my
> own message, I saw that the message "Excerpt" cut off at about a
> three-quarters of the real message.

I suspect that's just Mailman's web interface trying to avoid generating
a really huge web page in case someone mails a 5 MB file to the list.

> Should I be worried about this?

I don't think so.  Mailman should send the complete message to the list
just fine.

> Thanks.  I know this may be a dumb question.

There are no stupid questions, only stupid ... oh wait, I'm supposed to
be polite on this list, aren't I.  >smirk<

        Greg
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