[llvm-dev] Question about llvm-dev's moderator?

[David Blaikie via llvm-dev]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 7:05 PM chuanqi.xcq via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>     Previously I sent a mail to llvm-dev. And I received following:
> ```
> Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval.
>
> The reason it is being held:
>
>     Message body is too big: 130414 bytes with a limit of 100 KB
>
> Either the message will get posted to the list, or you will receive
> notification of the moderator's decision.
> ```
>    This is the first time I received this. I think the email I sent is
> not big . There is no pictures or anything would enlarge the size. All of
> the contents are texts.
>    And my question is what is the mechanism of list moderator?
>    What should I do? Should I cancel this email and reduce the size and
> send again? Since it is a reply mail, there are many contents belongs to
> others. I worries if it would affect others who prefer to use mail to work.
>
>
Probably not a huge deal - it'll probably get approved relatively quickly.
But in the future/a thing to think about is pruning the quoted portions of
an email to contain the relevant details to your reply/branch of the
conversation, but not reams of mostly-unrelated quoted text.
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