mail limit of 40KB?

[Rashkae]

Zhengguo Xu wrote:
> I post a long mail titled 'summary on my previous post - "SSH connection
> problem"' and received the followingubuntu-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?
> 
> thanks.
> 
> 

You are sending your messages in html format.  Which, besides being poor
etiquette for mailing lists, will also inflate the size of your messages
by an order of magnitude.  Please configure your mail client to send
messages text only.

(You can always send an e-mail to yourself then view the message source
to be certain you don't have html code in there.)