-=> mark lewis wrote to Andrew Leary <=-

 ml> well above most known fidonet software, yes... i'm aware of several
 ml> packages that can handle large messages without problems... one tosser,
 ml> in fact, spools to disk based swap files when it runs out of memory
 ml> that it can process in...

Not a bad idea, although I'm sure that slows things down a bit.

 ml> and i hate to bring it up, yet again, but... if coders were to actually
 ml> follow the specs, we'd not be having these "problems" with message
 ml> sizes... fidonet specifications specifically allow for large messages
 ml> via use of the phrasing "message body unbounded" ;)

Yes, the specs have always said that, and almost nobody ever read that
part! ;-)

Andrew

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