SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) (10/18/89)
It occurs to me that APPLE2-L often ships files that may give USENET
indigestion (aside from the 100K+ Kermit 3.86 that all sorts of BITNET
and Internet hosts refused to deliver, some of the APPLE technotes and
other things are on the large side). Perchance some of the reqular
'readers' of USENET have a notion of the maximum feasible size (now that
we have a direct way of mailing to the comp.binaries.apple2 group)?
Murph Sewall Vaporware? ---> [Gary Larson returns 1/1/90]
Prof. of Marketing Sewall@UConnVM.BITNET
Business School sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu [INTERNET]
U of Connecticut {psuvax1 or mcvax }!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL [UUCP]
(203) 486-5246 [FAX] (203) 486-2489 [PHONE] 41 49N 72 15W [ICBM]
The opposite of artificial intelligence is genuine stupidity!
-+- I don't speak for my employer, though I frequently wish that I could
(subject to change without notice; void where prohibited)matthew@sunpix.UUCP ( Sun Visualization Products) (10/20/89)
In article <8910180902.aa00387@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) writes: |It occurs to me that APPLE2-L often ships files that may give USENET |indigestion (aside from the 100K+ Kermit 3.86 that all sorts of BITNET |and Internet hosts refused to deliver, some of the APPLE technotes and |other things are on the large side). Perchance some of the reqular |'readers' of USENET have a notion of the maximum feasible size (now that |we have a direct way of mailing to the comp.binaries.apple2 group)? | |Murph Sewall Vaporware? ---> [Gary Larson returns 1/1/90] |Prof. of Marketing Sewall@UConnVM.BITNET |Business School sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu [INTERNET] |U of Connecticut {psuvax1 or mcvax }!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL [UUCP] | (203) 486-5246 [FAX] (203) 486-2489 [PHONE] 41 49N 72 15W [ICBM] | | The opposite of artificial intelligence is genuine stupidity! |-+- I don't speak for my employer, though I frequently wish that I could | (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited) It my understanding that here are a lot of mailers out there that choke on anything over 65536 bytes (2^16). Most of the other binaries and sources groups observe this limitation and limit data sizes to approx. 50k. (50k data size gives the posting ~15k of reserve space for prefixed text and mailing headers.) Using binscii, this works out to 3 binscii segments per post. (parts 1,2,3), (parts 4,5,6), ..... -- Matthew Lee Stier | Sun Microsystems --- RTP, NC 27709-3447 | "Wisconsin Escapee" uucp: sun!mstier or mcnc!rti!sunpix!matthew | phone: (919) 469-8300 fax: (919) 460-8355 |