>Ideally, information providers would be using smaller files (the problem here 
>is probably images), for environmental reasons. After all, they all have CO2 
>targets now.

Can that be used as a lever to make "publication online" policy on
"green" and "saving money by reducing duplication" grounds, either at
local or national level?

I can confirm that Bath and North East Somerset Council think that
roughly 100 sides is too much to send via email :-). It arrived this
morning in the post.

Matt

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Francis Irving <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 08:44:20PM +0000, Ian Eiloart wrote:
>>
>> On 3 Jan 2010, at 17:37, Louise Ferguson wrote:
>>
>> > Hi all
>> >
>> > Can someone confirm to me that there are no (realistic) limits on
>> > volume/file size submissions by respondents to WDTK? Or whether there
>> > are....
>> >
>>
>> If the problem is email, then there's no way to tell the size limit,
>> since it will vary depending on the email systems of both the sender
>> and the recipient. The information provider may well be limited to
>> 10MB per email, but 50MB per email is more common these days.
>>
>> Remember, emails are usually seven bit encoded, so files will at
>> least double in size when attached to an email.
>>
>> I don't know WDTK, but it would be sensible if responses could be
>> uploaded through the web site instead rather than emailed, if that
>> facility isn't already available.
>
> Yes, that facility is available. There is a link at the bottom of each
> request, and it authenticates against email addresses at the
> authority.
>
> Francis
>
>> Ideally, information providers would be using smaller files (the
>> problem here is probably images), for environmental reasons. After
>> all, they all have CO2 targets now.
>>
>> > Like if they are trying to argue against providing 200 (reports) x
>> > 200 KB (max size) to WDTK...
>> >
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