JC> updated, since who knows where the authors are...).  Certainly
 JC> that's something to keep in mind;  but are there known
 JC> programs that have problems with the number of msgs in a
 JC> packet?  I'd always thought the problem was with the size of
 JC> some messages, in a packet..

that is and has been a problem in fidonet for a long time... mainly due to
lazy coders and hobbiests doing the designing and implementing and not
having enough or any forethough to the future... many tossers are limited
by slightly less than 64k message size because they pull the entire message
into memory and work with it there rather than spooling excess stuff to
temp disk storage to get to the end of the message and the needed tossing
data stored there...

that's an old DOS-think limitation...

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