Subj : MSGID
To   : Jame Clay
From : mark lewis
Date : Wed Feb 16 2005 04:31 pm

 JC> updated, since who knows where the authors are...).  Certainly
 JC> that's something to keep in mind;  but are there known
 JC> programs that have problems with the number of msgs in a
 JC> packet?  I'd always thought the problem was with the size of
 JC> some messages, in a packet..

that is and has been a problem in fidonet for a long time... mainly due to lazy 
coders and hobbiests doing the designing and implementing and not having enough 
or any forethough to the future... many tossers are limited by slightly less 
than 64k message size because they pull the entire message into memory and work 
with it there rather than spooling excess stuff to temp disk storage to get to 
the end of the message and the needed tossing data stored there...

that's an old DOS-think limitation...

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