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Article #3205Re: Ill-effects of a posting greater than 64k
From: Ken Dykes
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 21:39
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 21:39
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In article <Tm2JRB19w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) writes:
>dan@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu (Daniel Zabetakis) writes:
>> I think the consensus is that as faster and better connections become
>> more common, the problem caused by big articles diminishes. I have seen MB
>> articles posted to alt that did not attract flames.
>
>Probably because they were posted to alt groups that nobody in UUCP-land gets
>-- like the alt.binaries.pictures hierarchy, for instance.
>
>
>mathew
dont underestimate Uucp-land
this company is uucp only
we have always received ALL alt.binaries and comp.binaries groups
in fact we receive all of alt/comp/rec/soc/sci, one modem, one feedsite
i believe, historically, the only true uucp argument against >64k
was that early uucp software would DIE at the 64k boundary because
it used silly sized integers.
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- Ken Dykes, Thinkage Ltd., Kitchener, Ontario, Canada [43.47N 80.52W]
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Newsgroups: news.admin Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!utcsri!torn!watserv2.uwaterloo.ca!watmath!thinkage!kgdykes From: kgdykes@thinkage.on.ca (Ken Dykes) Subject: Re: Ill-effects of a posting greater than 64k Message-ID: <1992Sep27.213905.21060@thinkage.on.ca> Organization: Thinkage Ltd. References: <1992Sep22.235717.28497@news.columbia.edu> <Tm2JRB19w165w@mantis.co.uk> Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 21:39:05 GMT Lines: 27