From: Bill Davidsen (davidsen@prodigy.com)
Date: Tue Jul 03 2001 - 10:49:55 CDT
Brad Templeton <brad@templetons.com> wrote:
> 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?
Of course, how else would the articles be available. If a site doesn't
want binaries they don't ask for them, if they ask for binaries but
<1MB, they obviously have other issues.
There are some technical reasons for this, one might be to avoid
people endlessly trying to download larger articles, one might be their
filesystem not handling larger articles well. Since there's no
interoperability problem, we should we try to solve it?
> message/partial confuses the line about what's an article. Is it the
> components (as most software will treat it) or is it the combination?
> (as the message/partial aware reader will show it.)
>
> 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?
And my main point which you have totally avoid addressing is: since
all lower limits previously used by usenet have dropped out of common
use, and there is no flood of people using smaller sizes than they must,
why do you feel that we suddenly need it?
I expect you to ignore the question again...
-- -bill davidsen (davidsen@prodigy.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me