Subj : Re: Message size
To   : Alan Ianson
From : Nick Andre
Date : Sun Nov 20 2022 07:07 pm

On 20 Nov 22  13:54:10, Alan Ianson said the following to Nick Andre:

> The reality is that nobody reads messages over 64k, I don't read messages
> over 6.4k for that matter - and Fidonet was never designed for it. 64k was
> never an issue "then" in 1988 and certainly not an issue "now".
AI>
AI> This message size issue is an old one. It shows itself from time to time.

I know it does. Part of me does not understand why the onus falls on my
shoulders to handle this instead of the author of the message-posting software
not splitting large messages into managable chunks.

Let me look at the code when I have some time... translation, boredom.

It may only be possible to skip messages beyond 64k; splitting them will be a
challenge with very little heap-memory to work with and already pushing limits
of what can be done with 640k.

I'm reluctant to start changing code largely untouched for decades.

Nick

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