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|    Tommi Koivula to Björn Felten    |
|    Repairing a JAM message base, please    |
|    11 Sep 15 15:47:02    |
      On 11.9.2015 15:15, Björn Felten -> Matt Bedynek wrote:               MB>> Even with this, I had issues access messages in bases larger than ~16K        MB>> in messages - can't remember the exact number.               BF> Probably 2^^14 (16384). Even the FrontDoor editor has the same        BF> problem. At least the DOS version.              I just posted two test messages to my JAM base with GoldED, the first       one was 63k, the second one as 70k.              I can read them both ok from jamnntpd by thunderbird.              However, when I tried to reply, jamnntpd refused:              "A News (NNTP) error occurred: Posting failed (message too long, maximum       size 20000 bytes"              'Tommi              --- Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31        * Origin: *** JamNNTPd @ nntp://fidonews.mine.nu *** Finland *** (2:221/6)    |
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