On 2017 Oct 25 14:36:30, you wrote to Andrew Leary:   
      
    AL>> In the future, I can look at possibly splitting large replies into   
    AL>> multiple messages.   
      
    VC> In mbse there is a 60/64k message limit does this still apply in fido   
    VC> land these days with internet comms used for most if not all sysops ?   
      
   there never was a limit on message size... what everyone has been seeing is   
   arbitrary limits placed by ""lazy"" coders*... the tech standard states that   
   message bodies are unbounded which means there is no limit set... this leaves   
   plenty of room for expansion as technology grows... we can see this by this   
   very 64k barrier... it used to be 32k... these days, memory is accessed   
   differently and the barrier is much much larger... effectively, each system is   
   limited by drive space*N where N is the number of copies of the message a   
   system makes when processing the message... copies because of sending to other   
   systems in a distribution system (eg: fidonet)...   
      
      
   * ""lazy"" coders: those who didn't implement some sort of disk-based overflow   
   system so they could process messages too large to fit into the memory   
   allocation scheme of the time... sure, the larger messages would be processed   
   slower but they would be processed and passed on... no need for splitting...   
   splitting should be done only when the messages are stored in a local message   
   base that has arbitrary message size limits in place... split the message when   
   initially stored... reassemble it into one when exporting it to other systems   
   (eg: they rescanned the area)... the ^ASPLIT spec is perfect for this but some   
   chose to use it at another point in the process...   
      
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