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From: abaxter@PIKES.DENVER.COLORADO.EDU (Alan Baxter)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: fixes-1 in xstuff is too large.
Message-ID: <9002070208.AA16319@pikes.Denver.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 7 Feb 90 02:08:56 GMT
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I can't receive fixes-1 from xstuff@expo.lcs.mit.edu because it is larger
than 50000 bytes, i.e. 63113 bytes.  The mailer at ncar has a message size
limit of 50000 bytes.

Could fixes-1 be broken up into two files, each of which is smaller than
50000 bytes?  How about a policy of making sure that none of the mail
archiver's files are greater than 50K?

I know the instructions for the archiver say to not ask for multiple files
totaling more than 100K bytes, but it seems that 50K would be a more
reasonable limit - at least ncar's mailer thinks so.  I've noticed that an
attempt was made to keep the R3 fixes smaller than 50K, although I never got
fixes 5 and 6 because they were slightly larger than 50K.  In fact the
instructions for getting the R3 fixes explicitly say the following:

	Although xstuff will handle requests for multiple fixes in one
	message (e.g. send fixes 3 4), you shouldn't ask for more than
	50Kbytes at a time.

Is there anyone else with this problem, or does ncar have the only mailer with
this restriction :-).

Alan Baxter                    (303)444-0094
VEXCEL Corporation             abaxter@pikes.denver.colorado.edu
2477 55th St.
Boulder, CO 80301