AI> Yep, there are some systems that simply can't toss that message, so
 AI> if you want to be read it's necessary to cut it down to size
 AI> somewhat. But to what? 256Kb? MBSE BBS can create messages like
 AI> that too (new file announcements),

hell. i've got software that i wrote that can create messages as large as
my available drive space up to 2gig, in size... it has been actively tested
by posting the largest nodelist in fidonet's history to one message in one
test echo...

 AI> but if there are a lot of files recieved on any day they get split 
 AI> at 32kb. I'm pretty sure any tosser on any OS can toss those.. :)

yup but who really wants to be tossing 100's of small messages when tossing
one will do, go faster, and take up less space (due to no duplication of
the headers and other control information) O:)

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