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Re: Are text-only peers being too restrictive at <256k article size?

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From: resista...@is.futile (Borg)
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Subject: Re: Are text-only peers being too restrictive at <256k article size?
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2022 06:33:49 -0500
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by: Borg - Sun, 17 Jul 2022 11:33 UTC

On 6/18/22 13:50, Jesse Rehmer wrote:
> I have followed what seems like a general consensus among text-only
> peers to limit article size at 128/256k when setting up peering
> arrangements.

[...]

In the past I have used servers that limited posts to 32k and 64k. If I
were running a server today I would probably limit new posts to 64k. The
way I see it Usenet is for discussion, not encyclopedia publication.
Just my personal opinion ...

If someone is publishing a huge FAQ or something they think is really
important they can divide it into a series of posts. The work to create
such a large post is far in excess of the minor ten-second hassle of of
'head / tail -c 65536' or copypasta to two or three posts.

Borg

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