Re: Max size for a FAQ ?

ks@cen.com
Fri, 9 Jun 95 9:45:11 EDT

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> Also if I do read someone else's FAQ, I prefer it if it's one part only.
> Regardless of the length (up to a high limit which I right now would set
> somewhere between 0.5 and 1 Megabyte). Any other opinions? Are the only
> reasons for "don't make it longer than 64 KB" technical reasons?
>
> Bye,
>
> Uli

While I also would _prefer_ to maintain my FAQ as a single file,
the current size is 416 KB; the FAQ is in 9 parts (recently increased
from 6). I have tried to ensure no part of my FAQ exceeds 64 KB.
I do, however, make the entire FAQ available as a single file via
ftp from 2 locations for those who prefer a single file.

I quote from:

Welcome to faq-maintainers/faq-maintainers-announce!
Version: $Id: mailing-lists-policy,v 1.12 1994/04/25 23:23:18 pshuang Exp $

[quote]
These guidelines also DO NOT specify lower or upper limits for the
size of an acceptable posting. However, a pragmatic lower limit
is set by the requirement that the articles be useful to people
(having to search through too many tiny postings may be
discouraging to the reader). As for a pragmatic upper limit,
maintainers may wish to consider that part of their audience may
not be able to access too large articles due to intermediary news
(and gateway) software problems (64KB is a common magic size).

[much stuff deleted]

D. Add parts to or delete parts from a "posting"

1. Split up a single-part posting

Submit all the parts to news-answers@mit.edu, consulting Section
II on sensible archive names and subject lines. Wait for
approval before posting.

2. Add a new part to a posting which already has multiple parts

Note: In order to reduce how often you need to ask for new parts,
you might consider asking for more than just one new part
approved at a time, thus making your postings individually
smaller and giving them more room to grow. For example, if you
post in 5 parts now to keep your postings below 64KB each, and
you find you need a new part, you might ask us to approve 3 new
parts (total of 8), and then your postings can grow by more than
100KB before you will need to ask us for a new part again. If
you do this, please start using all the parts that you've gotten
approved at once, i.e., don't ask for 3 new parts and then only
expand to use the first new part at first, and then the second,
and then the third.
[end quote]

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