Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ2 - Header field too long (>1024)

[Kris Dahl <krislists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 4/28/00 2:25 AM, ajongsma at andries.jongsma@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> The reason for this seems to be the long lists of people who must receive this
> message. It contains 47 people and that's obvious more than 1024 bytes. The
> whole
> question is how to make this limit higher or disappear at all.

Really its there to protect against SPAM problems.  There is no practical
reason why someone should need to send an email to 50 of their closest
friends.

On that note, I have a client that CONSISTANTLY tries to do this even though
I told them that you can't do that, and that is what mailing lists are for.
After explaining the situation several times, I decided to just let the
messages bounce.  So, every week, they try to send out a message to all the
staff, and every week it bounces.  So basically, its improper use of the
email system, designed to eliminate a poor man's SPAM script (ie. select all
contacts from Outlook and hit send).

-k