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From: lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Posting programs
Message-ID: <204@n8emr.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Aug-87 11:11:53 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  7 11:11:53 1987
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Reply-To: lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden)
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I wonder if it would be possible for folks who have space problems to 
look at the size of the article before downloading it and perhaps only 
download a portion of the article (first 20 lines or so) if it was over a
certain size.  I personally believe that a) if we try to keep source and
binary lists off this list we will never have a comp.sources and comp.binaries
group, b) that 10k is much to small for programs of any great utility (such
as arc, compress, emacs, kermit, dcom, etc), and c) that there are many folks
who have the 'potential' of reading this group who have no space problems at
all.  If we try to go to the lowest common denominator, then what do we use-
5.25" drives which are 75% full?  A source code listing of any size, even 10k
may be too large if there is any mail being downloaded at the same time.  Or
perhaps the max size of a GS ram disk using the new roms?  That would be 8 
meg!


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