Hello Wes!

11 Jun 03 14:15, Wes Garland wrote to Michael Grant:

 WG> However, I appreciate you pointing out the limits in the older
 WG> products; I need to make a checklist of "limits to remove". Message
 WG> size limits are a big one; I firmly believe I should be able to handle
 WG> messages which are at least half as big as the amount of virtual
 WG> memory available.

Keep in mind that the 256K limit is only on the pre-defined keyword
("Large") that Scott provided and tested.  If you specify the
individual numeric parameters manually, SQ386P (1.10) is supposedly capable
of handling messages until they his some OS/2 API limit around 2gb (max
size for a single file?).

 WG> One limit I will not be removing is the node number limit (255),
 WG> as that will break many third-party utilities.

The same is true for large messages.  Imagine what downstream nodes'
unspecified tossing software (or even another Squish using one of the
canned settings), unnamed QWK (and other offline) readers, etc will be able
to do with them.

I don't even use "Large", except as a temporary setting while
tossing gated newsgroup areas.

.\\ike

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