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In article <uu6RX26w163w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) writes:
>Single messages longer than a certain length (to be decided) which appear in
>any newsgroups should be dropped, and mail sent to the originator. Personally
>I can't think of any reason for single messages of more than (say) 128K in
>a discussion group, or even in a binaries group for that matter. I'd probably
>support a limit of about 32K for discussion groups.

I would prefer to see some form of limit arranged between feeds, incorporated
into the UUCP/news software, such that I could get with my feed site and say:

(my machine, my_sys)
	my_sys:MAX_FILE_SIZE = 32K
	his_sys:MAX_FILE_SIZE = 64K

(feed machine, his_sys)
	my_sys:MAX_FILE_SIZE = 32K
	his_sys:MAX_FILE_SIZE = 64K

Thus, it would find the size of the articles, and not queue up those that
exceed the limit, marking them as skipped.

This would allow the sites with megadisks pass on whatever is posted,
but those of us with microdisks need never see the monster articles.  It
also prevents problems with trying to centralize the control, and update
it, and so on.



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