RJT>> I start getting into trouble up around a couple hundred K or
 RJT>> so...

 RJT>> The symptom amounts to a "clogged pipe",  which
basically means
 RJT>> that I can't get anything else until I finish that particular
 RJT>> transaction.  Can't flush that file out of the queue,  etc.  Or
 RJT>> so I'm told

 JB> read up on pop3 and telnet of the pop3 server and kill the big
 JB> message. then ask the author to send smaller pieces.

IIUC, he doesn't get his stuff via POP3... it arrives at a host and is
"converted" for pickup via UUCP in the old fashioned way...

)\/(ark