From: Brad Templeton (brad@templetons.com)
Date: Wed Jul 04 2001 - 01:49:15 CDT
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:58:50PM +0100, Clive D. W. Feather wrote:
> 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.
Did we get a survey of how many newsreaders actually deal with them now?
I know there are some, but I don't believe the top newsreaders such as
Netscape, MSIE/OE and trn deal with them. I thought most people saved
them to a text file and put another app on them?