Even though it seems screwy, this might have been done on purpose.
Back in the old days, 64k was a recommended maximum (of sorts) for
newsgroup postings.
> Sending my FAQ (which has recently grown to about 66k) as an
> attachment adds MIME boundaries to the message, which the
> faq-server parser cannot relate to.
This is almost certainly the wrong thing to do. Despite the age of the
MIME standards, lots of people are still having problems with MIME.
Unless you know your audience is likely to be MIME-savvy, sending
stuff as attachments is going to create problems for some of your
readers (and some of them will undoubtedly complain).
I would suggest breaking the FAQ into parts, if at all possible. If
you look at other big FAQs on RTFM, they are almost universally
divided into different parts (by topic, if possible).
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