> It is usually recommended to split up a FAQ when it goes over 64K in size.
> However, then it's a pain - both for the maintainer (who has to juggle
> separate files) and for the reader (who has to retrieve several pieces
> instead of one).
It probably also depends on the kind of faq you maintain. I maintain
a FAQ (FTP FAQ) which is about 53K, but also the Anonymous FTP Sitelist
which is over 1000K now. There's no easy 'chapter' split possible in the
sitelist, so what I basically do is maintain one file and when I want to
post it, run a program that splits the list in 60K chunks, adds the
appropriate headers and mails it to the faqserver (actually a bunch of
programs working together of course). Readers who want the list in one
piece are referred to the misc. ftp sites etc. that are carrying the .zip
equivalent, which contains the sitelist in just one file.
I've only had 2 complaints about the size in over a year so I don't think
that's a very big issue to the readers in question (and the complaints
came from BBSs that got the list in chunks of 2K or something because of
the software they were using).
Perry Rovers (Perry.Rovers@kub.nl)
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