-=> Quoting mark lewis to Jasen Betts <=-

 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.

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

Ouch. I recall when I was getting alt.binaries.strtrek on my uucp
connection and some newbie broadband user posted an entire *episode* of
Voyager as an MPEG or AVI or some such. Part xxx of 9500 with the parts
running a meg each. I had to contact my feed and have him unsubscribe
me from the newsgroup. then it took me almost three days to clear the
backlog.

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