Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!n8emr!lwv
From: lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Archive server mods
Message-ID: <668@n8emr.UUCP>
Date: 23 Oct 88 19:30:16 GMT
Reply-To: lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden)
Organization: Ham BBS, 614-457-4227 (1200/2400/19.2 telebit,8N1)
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A number of sites appear to be running the same mail based archive server
software (send a help msg, index msg, or send msg).  What I have noticed
is that if I use a path command to tell these sites to return items via
my bitnet address, the software gets truncated at 80 columns, tabs turn into
multiple spaces, and some characters get mangled.

Has anyone improved this software so that bitnet users (and others?) get
the software distributed in chunks of uuencoded format?  Or use bitnet
commands to format the data into netdata format?

Also, I notice that if an item is larger than about 60k some sites along
the path fail to allow the data thru.  In my case, it happens to be the
ONLY backbone site who can talk uucp to my home site.  When that is the
case, it becomes almost impossible to get the data to me.

It sure would be nice if the archive servers would break larger items up
into multiple 60k chunks (AFTER uuencoding!!!)

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