maximum reliable message length?

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From: Steve Emmerson
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1991 13:44

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Greetings,

What is the length of the longest message that can be reliably 
transmitted throughout the Internet and UUCP networks?

Someone's trying to send me some software from Britain and it keeps 
failing.

Thanks in advance,
--

Steve Emmerson        steve@unidata.ucar.edu        ...!ncar!unidata!steve

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