stephen@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Stephen J. Muir) (11/13/86)
-rw-r--r-- 1 news 191877 Nov 13 15:38 /usr/spool/news/net/sources/2600 Don't *ever* post a single article this size again. I would like to see a hard limit of 75000 bytes enforced both by inews and rnews on a single article so that, even if the sending site doesn't enforce this, another site further on will junk it. -- EMAIL: stephen@comp.lancs.ac.uk | Post: University of Lancaster, UUCP: ...!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!stephen | Department of Computing, Phone: +44 524 65201 Ext. 4120 | Bailrigg, Lancaster, UK. Project:Alvey ECLIPSE Distribution | LA1 4YR
stephen@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Stephen J. Muir) (11/18/86)
In article <648@comp.lancs.ac.uk> I wrote: >-rw-r--r-- 1 news 191877 Nov 13 15:38 /usr/spool/news/net/sources/2600 > >Don't *ever* post a single article this size again. ... It seems I have been misunderstood. I am not against this quantity of news coming my way, but I *am* against this amount *in a single article*. It should have been split up into small enough pieces so that unreliable links (not mine) don't have to pay for several abortive attempts to copy it all at once. -- EMAIL: stephen@comp.lancs.ac.uk | Post: University of Lancaster, UUCP: ...!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!stephen | Department of Computing, Phone: +44 524 65201 Ext. 4120 | Bailrigg, Lancaster, UK. Project:Alvey ECLIPSE Distribution | LA1 4YR