From: Clive D. W. Feather (clive@on-the-train.demon.co.uk)
Date: Tue Jul 03 2001 - 17:58:50 CDT
In message <20010702105814.C23324@main.templetons.com>, Brad Templeton
<brad@templetons.com> writes
>We probably should include a line that any multi-article article (We need
>a vocabulary here) SHOULD be posted as a single thread (not just
>message/partial
>but we won't name uuencode by name) so that people can rightly complain
>about unthreaded multi-article articles.
I wouldn't object to that.
>But with a decent article size minimum (say 5MB) a general newsreader doesn't
>have to worry about article reassembly, and by and large they don't today,
>nor should they have to. The typical size systems can handle will probably
>increase in line with what people want to post.
I disagree. I don't see multi-parts going away any time soon, and
general newsreaders will be made to deal with them, even if they aren't
also mail handlers.
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