mail limit of 40KB?

[Carl Friis-Hansen]

Zhengguo Xu wrote:
> I post a long mail titled 'summary on my previous post - "SSH connection 
> problem"' and received the following
> 
> 
>       ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
>       <mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com>
> 
>  to me
> 
> 	
> show details 00:50 (4 minutes ago)
> 	
> 	
> Reply
> 	
> 	
> 
> Your mail to 'ubuntu-users' with the subject
> 
>    summary on my previous post - "SSH connection problem"
> 
> Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval.
> 
> The reason it is being held:
> 
>    Message body is too big: 47715 bytes with a limit of 40 KB
> 
> Either the message will get posted to the list, or you will receive
> notification of the moderator's decision.  If you would like to cancel
> this posting, please visit the following URL:
> 
> 
> however, i checked my mail (it was written in gedit and from the 
> statistics in tool menu) it was only 14997 bytes, 14KB. so why this is 
> happening? i really want to post this mail for help. is there any way to 
> solve the issue?

I do not know what your question is, but if you restricted yourself to 
only using plain text emails, your message is more likely to fit within 
the 40K boundaty.

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