ml>> that's why its up to /them/ to split... they are restricted
 ml>> only by their hardware limitations...

 MT> [...]

 ml>> if those in fido's history has really known this, there
 ml>> wouldn't have been software with line (!) limits and there
 ml>> would have been more software that was able to handle larger
 ml>> messages than 16k, 32k and 64k...

 MT> They were probably restricted by their hardware limitations.
 MT> :)

 MT> 360K floppies, 20mb hard drives (w/32mb max partitions), and
 MT> 300baud modems definitely set a different ceiling than the
 MT> 2gb we're fretting over today.

while true, it only put a ceiling on the maximum message size able to be
processed... if the code had been written properly, it'd likely still be
able to be used today with larger limits... indeed, it may even be that
fidonet would have already been carrying encoded pictures and such like
internet email does... i remember several FTSC proposals for new PKT types
that used "containers" and allowed for just such traffic...

)\/(ark