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From: tadguy@cs.odu.edu (Tad Guy)
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Subject: Re: Can someone post the CrossDOS demo?
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Date: 24 Oct 89 23:57:52 GMT
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In-reply-to: poirier@dg-rtp.dg.com's message of 24 Oct 89 17:40:42 GMT

In article <2089@xyzzy.UUCP> poirier@dg-rtp.dg.com (Charles Poirier) writes:
   There used to be a Usenet convention that postings larger than 64K bytes
   should be split up.  I forget the reason -- possibly that larger files
   are truncated to 64K?  Does anyone know if this is still a problem?

It may no longer be a problem, but it's still a reasonable
self-limitation.

Occasionally news is carried over uucp-based mail links, which are
often limited to 100k (some sites have lowered this to 64k).
Traditional news links (and nntp links) have no such limit.

However, not all sites are UNIX based, and 64k is a managable chunk of
data, while 200k (etc.) may not be.  Use your own discretion...

	...tad