kristoff@GENBANK.BIO.NET (Dave Kristofferson) (03/11/91)
For those who might think about using Compuserve to communicate with
the Internet, here is a bounced message from a recent newsgroup
posting that exceeded their size limit. Similar problems would arise
with sizeable FASTA or entry server mailings.
Dave
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Date: Sat, 9 Mar 91 06:47:37 -0500
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To: BIOSCI-REQUEST
Subject: Msg too large
The enclosed note was blocked by the Internet/CompuServe mail gateway;
delivery has not been attempted to any of the intended recipients.
The enclosed note is larger than 60,000 bytes and was destined for at
least one ordinary "subscriber" account at CompuServe. CompuServe
subscriber accounts cannot receive mail of this size; this is an
administrative decision on the part of CompuServe to prevent disc
space overruns by users getting more mail than they can deal with. If
you need to send items this large, they will have to be broken up into
smaller pieces and mailed separately.
Cordially,
--The Internet Mailgate