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From: matthew@sunpix.UUCP ( Sun Visualization Products)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: APPLE2-L to comp.binaries.apple2
Message-ID: <934@friar-taac.UUCP>
Date: 20 Oct 89 13:16:41 GMT
References: <8910180902.aa00387@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: matthew@friar-taac.UUCP (Matthew Stier - Sun Visualization Products)
Organization: Sun Microsystems, RTP, NC
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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]
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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), .....




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