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From: jerry@olivey.olivetti.com (Jerry Aguirre)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: What to do about humongous postings
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Date: 1 Mar 91 07:24:00 GMT
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In article <580@nyet.UUCP> pete@nyet.UUCP (Pete Hardie) writes:
>I would prefer to see some form of limit arranged between feeds, incorporated
>into the UUCP/news software, such that I could get with my feed site and say:
>
>(my machine, my_sys)
>	my_sys:MAX_FILE_SIZE = 32K
>	his_sys:MAX_FILE_SIZE = 64K

Or perhaps a syntax like:

	his_sys:world,comp,sci,...:F<64000:

That already exists in the current version of B news.