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to: Paul Edwards
from: andrew clarke
date: 1995-08-29 21:15:28
subject: Type-3

29 Jul 95 11:48, Paul Edwards wrote to Coridon Henshaw:

 CH>> It is very easy to handle messages larger than the program's 
 CH>> internal buffer.  The trouble is that most programmers just don't 
 CH>> know how.

 > Have you done this yourself on Type-2 packets?  Where can I FREQ your 
 ~
 > domain?  I have done it myself, and I can tell you that it is a LOT of 
 > work to do.  I even had to have two goes at it to get it right.  Oh 
 > yeah, and I didn't want to have any speed penalty compared to all the 
 > other mailprocessors that don't allow messages bigger than their buffer
 > to be processed.  I don't mind there being a slowdown on the messages 
 > bigger than the buffer though.  And 

Why not use a dynamic buffer?

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