Subj : *.pkt
To : Richard Webb
From : Mike Tripp
Date : Fri Mar 19 2010 12:08 pm
Hello Richard!
18 Mar 10 15:23, Richard Webb wrote to Mike Tripp:
RW> Agreed again. I think, the behavior I mentioned earlier
RW> this thread of splitting large messages works because I"m
RW> using the large buffers setting. OTherwise ymmv. I think
RW> the docs mention something about the behavior changing
RW> according to buffer size, i.e. squish will behave as it did
RW> with earlier versions if you use medium or small buffers.
Squish does not do any message splitting...though I do not recall whether it
renames the PKT to LNG or BAD for later reprocessing. The only change I'm
aware of between versions was new numeric values for Small/Medium/Large and the
ability to assign them (or explicit numeric values) to the 3 individual
buffers.
I did all sorts of convolutions to get a utility called PKTSort to do the
splitting by pre-processing the inbound directory while it was actually
designed to post-process the outbound directory. I eventually found a newsgroup
gating util called NGate which bypasses tossing and transfers messages directly
between NNTP server and squishbase...and still did a batch manipulation of the
Buffers statement in SQUISH.CFG just for scanning the newsgroups out to
downlinks.
After monitoring the messages >256K for a bit, I decided that I didn't really
need to be forwarding the spam or uuencoded "stuff" that either belonged in a
binary group or the bit-bucket anyway.
