Ross Finlayson writes:
> As someone who has used the Internet since before it was even *called* the
> Internet, I can remember when noone would have dreamed of sending email
> messages that were even 50 kBytes in size.
I wouldn't bet on that. Sometime in the mid 80's I wrote a pair of
scripts to automate breaking a file into roughly 50 KB pieces, sending
them by UUCP mail, and reassembling them. GE Medical Systems used it
to ship around MRI images.
However, I'm now of the opinion that email is first-class mail, not
parcel post.
> But how large is too large?
I imposed a 5 MB limit here after someone sent a single message of more
than 100 MB to one of our dialup users. This past week I had a user
get upset that we wouldn't accept a 28 MB message he wanted someone to
send him.
--
Dick St.Peters, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gatekeeper, NetHeaven, Saratoga Springs, NY
Saratoga/Albany/Amsterdam/BoltonLanding/Cobleskill/Greenwich/
GlensFalls/LakePlacid/NorthCreek/Plattsburgh/...
Oldest Internet service based in the Adirondack-Albany region
