Re: How to post large files

[Jim Meyering]

Bob Proulx wrote:

> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Bob Proulx wrote:
>> > Not so much to the coreutils mailing lists but to the other mailing
>> > lists there have been quite a few large files attempted to be posted.
>> > And when I say large I mean 10M files posted to mailing lists with
>> > 1200+ subscribers in the worst cases!  Usually somewhat less large.
>> > I wanted to say a few words about posting large files.
>> ...
>>
>> Nice post.  Thanks for putting all of that in one place.
>> Perhaps link to it from the coreutils-FAQ?
>
> Frankly I thought I would warm up with that post and then see what
> discussion followed.  Then post it over to gnu-prog-discuss for a
> wider audience. :-)
>
> There is an effort going to get the wiki going again.  (Spammers
> killed it months ago.)  I think this would be a good thing to have on
> a wiki page.  But same idea.  Something that can be referred to.  But
> I think a better fit for that information since it isn't really a
> question as such.

Great.  That sounds even better.