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from: Leonard.Erickson@Leonard.Erickson@.user@.site (Leonard Erickson)
date: 1996-08-22 00:00:00
subject: Gigo

Got a question. I commented out the "SPLIT 15000" line, as our tosser
can handle anything we are going to get (if it ever chokes, the author
will rewrite it so it won't. He believes "text unbounded" means what it
says). 

Trouble is, GIGO seems to be splitting messages *anyway*. Since we
aren't feeding anybody else, we'd kinda like to not have this happen. I
*could* put in something like "SPLIT 16711680" (max message size our
messagebase format allows) but that'd be kinda silly.

Also, as I know from sad experience, some of the software that can't
handle large messages does so based on number of *lines*, not size. For
example, one mail import program would silently truncated inbound email
at line 100, no matter how small the message was (sent a test message
consisting of 1 to 200, each on a seperate line. It got chopped).

So it might be a thought to add a "maxlines" command to limit the max
number of lines.


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