From: Clive D.W. Feather (clive@demon.net)
Date: Thu Jul 05 2001 - 05:50:35 CDT
Brad Templeton said:
> Um, this is going in circles. I'm proposing that the standard require
> that the software _technically_ handle articles of a least "X" (where X
> to my mind would be in the 5MB range though some like 1MB)
Fine.
> These sites would not say "we want the megabyte articles if they are
> annoyingly split up into 20 parts" It doesn't want them at all.
That's a no-sequitor. You have no knowledge of their reasons for wanting
the limit, so you can't assume that that's the reason.
> Anyway, it probably is time to end this. I mainly wanted to defend the
> philosophy (while we still have the chance and the switch to
> message/partial from multi-article uuencodde has not yet begun) that
> article disassembly and reassembly belongs in the transport tools, not the
> article format.
Possibly, but we aren't going to see the tools change in the appropriate
timescale.
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