[SC-Help] Re: deputies - size of submission

[Glenn Daniels]

"Pop" <nobody at devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message
> "Anon_" <h9vzc2i02 at sneakemail.com> wrote in message
> > For the last few weeks I have been receiving many spams that are near
150kb in size.

... snippage ...

> It "used to be" that SC truncated it for you and then asked if it was OK
> with you.  Have they stopped doing that?  Might be worth checking on?  If
> it's gone, maybe it could be put back; SC could just stop receiving the
> slime at their "limit" and let the rest of it puke into the ether?
>
> Just my 2 c.
> Pop

Is OK for items that may be safely truncated from the
bottom up. But is seriously wanting for really large item
as SC truncates a nibble and then another until the item
passes the threshold: many iterations required to whittle
150Kb to 50Kb bytewise. Worse, the truncation violates
the SC rule for mods which permit the parser to find
links it otherwise would not find. Worse still when the
spamforger puts the payload URLs at the bottom of
the item.

I am not here intending an answer to OP's issue,
but noting that I don't perceive a straightforward
solution to the problem but that SC might consider
raising the size limit to prevent spammers from
truncating vendor URLs. It might be even better
to have no published limit for spamforgers to abuse.

:-p
Glenn