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My question to you - does anyone have a good recommendation for how
large a plain-text posting can be?

The FAQ that I maintain has reached about 1Mb. About 1992 I
discovered empirically that one of the news servers upstream from me
would only accept parts that were less than about 64Kb, and I've stuck
with that ever since. As a result, I'm now posting 18 parts. Is the
size of a posting still an issue anywhere? I suspect that posting a
1Mb hunk will Just Not Do but would appreciate any thoughts.

(Just for the record, I maintain the thing in barely marked up form
using HTML markup, and generate both HTML and plain-text with a few
perl scripts.)

Thanks.

chris...

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Christopher Lott	Compiler of The Investment FAQ
lott@invest-faq.com	http://invest-faq.com/

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