From: Clive D.W. Feather (clive@demon.net)
Date: Mon Jul 02 2001 - 08:09:59 CDT
Brad Templeton said:
>> - agents MUST NOT prevent the use of message/partial just because the
>> whole message or a given piece would be under some limit;
> I'm confused. Why would anybody care if a message was under a limit?
I don't know. But I don't want it to happen.
> The reason for saying "don't do a multi-segment message if your
> article is less than [Size]" is to reduce or in fact eliminate the need for
> things like message/partial outside of groups for mpegs. Meaning
> the groups are far cleaner, and the software is simpler to write unless
> you want to write it to reassemble and handle large mpegs.
But a general-purpose newsreader would need this facility anyway, so why
would it be limited to reassembling mpegs ? I know groups that post their
FAQs in parts for their own reasons - I'd much rather these were
message/partial than have to reassemble by hand, and I don't want them
dropped just because the author splits them in 50kb chunks.
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