On (17 Feb 98) ROY J. TELLASON wrote to STEWART HONSBERGER... 
RJ> I picked max in the first place because there seemed to be a 
RJ> philosophy of design in it that suggested that there weren't arbitrary 
RJ> low limits in there like there were with other packages that were out 
RJ> at the time,  and I wanted to be able to put a *lot* of message bases, 
RJ>  file areas,  or "stuff" in either of them if I felt like it.  So far 
RJ> I haven't been disappointed. 
RJ> Heck,  what are all those files for if not to be downloaded?  I let 
RJ> users do what they want with their time on line.  Some come for 
RJ> messages,  some for files,  and some for both.  I just had a freq not 
RJ> long ago that pulled 34 files,  and I don't have a problem with that.  
RJ> Looking at the download counters on my files sections,  whole big 
RJ> chunks of it haven't been even touched yet... 
RJ> What else are they there for? 
You might check out using a File door to bypass this one  
I have used EZCDROM which works pretty good with MAX 
Latest one I found is: 
EZROM22B.ZIP                   EZ-ROM 2.20 CD-ROM Door for ANY BBS. 
                              Direct support Wildcat, PCBoard, RA, 
                              ProBoard, Maximus, TAG, TriBBS. UART, 
                              FOSSIL, DIGIBOARD. DOOR.SYS or 
                              DORINFOx.DEF. Keeps Own Database, 
                              Enforces Limits, MultiDisk, MultiNode 
                              File Tagging, Text Search, Offline 
                              Requests, ZIP & Text Viewer, Inserts 
                              BBS Ads, Supports Disk Changers, 
                              Internal Protocols, Disk Detect, Auto 
                              Menus, File List Maker. 
Later, 
                                                     John 
... "I don't know THAT yet, either!" - McCoy 
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