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In <372@ulogic.UUCP> hartman@ulogic.UUCP (Richard M. Hartman) writes:

>In article <1992Oct3.191106.18867@dscomsf.desy.de> Hallam@zeus02.desy.de writes:
>>When articles get split up they often can only be pieced back 
>>together manually.
...
>>There are many occasions in which one part in a ten part post gets
>>lost. In this case the whole article is useless. It would waste fewer 
>>resources here if either the whole article arrived, or none of it did.

>Hold the pieces until all arrive.  Piece it together then.  If you
>don't get the last piece w/in a reasonable time, junk the article.
>You keep 9/10ths on you disk for a couple days max.

   The other factor to consider is that requesting someone mail you one part
of a 10 part posting you missed is a heck of a lot easier than asking for a
complete file, and for many users at many sites, who have restrictions on the
size of mail they can recieve, the latter is out of the question.


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