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   mark lewis to Bj”rn Felten   
   Repairing a JAM message base, please   
   11 Sep 15 12:27:32   
   
   11 Sep 15 15:12, you wrote to Tommi Koivula:   
      
    TK>> "A News (NNTP) error occurred: Posting failed (message too long,   
    TK>> maximum size 20000 bytes"   
      
    BF> Ah yes, no wonder. In old style DOS programs there's usually a 2^16-10   
    BF> byte limit unless you take special precautions.   
      
    BF> But I (and Matt too if I'm not mistaken) was talking about a JAM base   
    BF> with more than 2^14 messages.   
      
   that should not be a problem... JAM bases have very large limits... indexes   
   and counters are all unsigned 32bit values, aka ulong...   
      
   http://defsol.com/news/jammbp-the-joaquim-andrew-mats-message-base-proposal/   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
   ... I'm too sexy for this echo!   
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