Hi,

On 2015-04-13 13:58:08, mark lewis wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:
  about: "last one standing":

 WvV>> Only if you're near the limit of a fidonet message. What is that
 WvV>> now? 16KB?

 ml> nope... according to the spec, there has never been a limit on FTN message
 ml> sizes... what there has been has been lazy programmers foisting artificial
 ml> limits that they didn't want to work around...

Than call it a practical limit...

 WvV>> But how usefull is it to post such big pieces of code? I can't
 WvV>> remember ever have seen that happen in fidonet...

 ml> one of my posting tools used to post the entire ~2Meg nodelist to an
 ml> echomail area for testing purposes... i used that same tool to post the
 ml> most recent policy document proposal... users running antiquated software
 ml> had problems but no one else did...

The binkd faq used to be posted in 2 parts (the biggest was about 30K) untill
2010. After someone complained, this was a problem, it was split up in parts of
at most 16K...

So the practical limit is probably somewhere between these numbers.

Bye, Wilfred.


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