From: Clive D.W. Feather (clive@demon.net)
Date: Mon Jul 02 2001 - 03:29:56 CDT
Brad Templeton said:
> But once again, if a site has declared a policy of not wanting articles
> larger than a megabyte, does that mean the poster should split into parts
> to get around the policy?
That depends on why it has the policy. It may be that they don't want
*pieces* larger than 1Mb, because of the way they handle them internally.
You don't know.
> Anyway, my main point remains that if most systems can handle arbitrary
> large articles, and the new spec encourages that, shouldn't we tell people
> to avoid message/partial unless they know of a special reason to use it?
I would suggest that, *if* we need limits at all:
- software MUST be able to handle articles up to 1Mb;
- agents MUST NOT prevent the use of message/partial just because the
whole message or a given piece would be under some limit;
- unless they have a reason to, users Ought Not to split messages less
than 1Mb-minus-delta, but any enforcement should be no more than a
"are you sure ?".
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