Re: Email messages: How large is too large?

[Keith Moore]

> Not every user requires this kind of bandwidth today, but the
> applications to generate sch data are here (sound, multiple still
> images, video, sharing executables, etc). You can't unring the bell, so
> it's probably worthwhile to study what can be done to mitigate the
> impact.

of course this is precisely why the SMTP SIZE extension was
developed in the first place.

and when the rescap group finishes its work it will be a trivial
matter to use rescap to advertise a per-recipient max-message-size 
attribute.