V G wrote:
> I don't agree with this. 40k is an arbitrary limit not based on any
> actual statistical or scientific research.

I think it's more driven by how much bandwidth they are willing to let the
server use in distributing a single list message.  40kbytes x 2000
subscribers =3D 80Mbytes.  Some of those will be grouped, but it's still a =
lot
to ask someone else to send for free as a result of a single message.

> I compressed my "line art"
> pictures with PNG and GIF (I really hate GIF), and both times, it was
> slightly over 40k (about 60-80k).

The pictures you showed had a lot of extraneous fluff in them.  They looked
like nothing more than untrimmed screen shots, and certainly could have bee=
n
smaller with very little effort.


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