Re: Dealing with growing FAQs

Chris Lewis (clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca)
Mon, 27 Jun 1994 20:06:47 -0400

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On Jun 27, 17:08, Kent Landfield wrote:
} Subject: Re: Dealing with growing FAQs
} Larry,

} > This 60k limit on postings is really a pain.

} The 60k limit is in the mind of the masses and not the software. It was
} a real problem 5 years ago but it does not seem to matter today. Vixie
} (comp.sources.unix) and I (comp.sources.misc) have been successfully
} posting articles at the 90K limit for over a year (actually close to two).
} Go take a look. I have not had one (not one) single person complain to me
} about postings they don't get, truncated posting or other 60k limit
} related problems.

I think this is idiosyncratic to your groups, because your groups tend
to be primarily UNIX-oriented, and none of the UNIX transports have
limits. On the other hand, I get an average of a "complaint" a month
with my FAQs. My audience is different - still much UNIX, but there's a
lot of people on the end of news-to-mail, LISTSERV, fidonet and other
gateways. Some of them with limits as low as 30K. Indeed, *most* Mac
readers have real difficulties with articles over 32K, and few can handle
them at all.

That being said, I refuse to cater to systems with limits of 60K or
lower, and will let mine drift up to about 90K before splitting. Partially
because of what I read of your experiences several years ago..., and
partially because I want to do what I can to stomp out such stupidity.

I'm architecting a major news installation up here, complete with
carefully selected Mac newsreaders (in addition to the UNIX complement).

Guess what misfeature rules out the newsreader entirely? ;-)

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