Re: Dealing with growing FAQs

Tim Pierce (twpierce@unix.amherst.edu)
Tue, 28 Jun 94 23:48:33 EDT

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> mathew writes:
> > News articles bigger than 100K are a *major* pain for UUCP systems
> > running over dodgy phone lines ...
>
> It's up to the transport protocol to make a reliable link out of an unreliable
> one. Splitting an FAQ doesn't reduce the amount of traffic that needs to
> flow over that 300 baud modem link, and it's easier for a computer to segment
> and reassemble packets than for a human to do it.

Granted. Still, I don't think that compromise is out of the
question. It doesn't seem unreasonable to ask people, when
appropriate, to construct their posts in a manner suitable
for one of the historically more common transport mechanisms
on the net, even if that transport mechanism is poorly
suited to certain aspects of the data it's transmitting.

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