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Re: shuttle program

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From: Gordon T Gopher at CCVAX
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1990 19:35
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In article <1990Feb23.182224.26265@iisat.uucp>, roberts@iisat.uucp (Greg Roberts) writes:
> Well, its me again. I need some serious help. The program is 88K in size and
> I thought it would mail out fine as is. I have a limit of 100K per day. Then
> I discovered that I had to UUENCODE the critter to mail it out. So I produced
> a file called sts26.uue and made a mass mailing out to about 50 people. They
> all bounced miserably ( like playing tennis with John MacEnroe). The problem
> is the sts26.uue file is 121K and some change, over my limit by more than 21%,
> so does anyone have any suggestions on how to cure this glitch. I cannot get
> a larger quota since the problem is not on my machine, but on a university 
> machine 2 sites away. I know everyone has been getting ansi over this but do
> you know what its like to get 20 bounced mail messages in one shot??:-}
> Suggestions greatly appreciated, help even more appreciated... might even be
> willing to offer cash!!!
> -- 
> Greg Roberts	              International Information Service (IIS)
>                               UUCP:  {uunet,utai,watmath}!dalcs!iisat!roberts
>                               Bitnet/Uucp: roberts@iisat.uucp
> "Just don't do something.....stand there!"
-- 

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From: h235_022@ccvax.ucd.ie (Gordon T Gopher at CCVAX)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: shuttle program
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Date: 27 Feb 90 19:35:45 GMT
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