Hello mark.   
      
   15 Feb 06 04:57, you wrote to me:   
      
    ml> speaking as one of those folk, /i/ don't forget... i _know_ that there   
    ml> is software available for those who can't/don't want to handle large   
    ml> messages... this software can cut/split (by FTSC proposal) messages   
    ml> too large for their systems to handle... i've said this for years...   
    ml> in fact, i've had this stance ever since the ^aSPLIT proposal was   
    ml> presented to the FTSC... i have /always/ believed it the   
    ml> responsibility of the -=recieving=- system to split messages according   
    ml> to _their_ capabilities rather than "forcing" everyone else to succumb   
    ml> to their individual restrictions...   
      
   If you are thinking of pktsort and psrt, both are buggy despite the fact that   
   there are at least a few hubs out that that still use it.  pktsoft had a bug   
   with regard to occassionally grunging netmail messages.  i believe that   
   splitting and recombination should be built into the tosser anyway but the   
   likelihood of a standard, dated and valuable as it seems, will make a mass   
   entry into software being utilized by sysops today.   
      
    ml> that is the operator's problem, IMHO... the real "problem" is getting   
    ml> folk to look at the other side of the coin...   
      
    ml> and thus loose mail... there's one part of that blackhole that folk   
    ml> speak of...   
      
    ml> educate folk and teach them to cut messages up to what /their/ systems   
    ml> can handle and don't restrict others in what they can handle ;) O:)   
      
   In a perfect fidonet of conformity and appreciation for the latest technology   
   that is true.  However, when joe sysop comes home every day and his tosser is   
   frozen because it hit a large message (he does not know why) he will likely   
   shutdown the system in frustration because his use of it and/or time is   
   limited.  The problem is two fold in that you have sysops running systems that   
   might not have the memory to handle large messages or they have the hardware   
   but they are using older software that does not take advantage of it   
   (abandonware, ect).   
      
   My tosser is generations ahead of yours just like yours is above the guy using   
   software 10 years old.  A message here can be the size of free memory.  Being   
   that I have two gigs of ram and a highspeed disk backplane, i could handle   
   messages in minutes that might take you hours but that is beside the point.   
      
   Not everybody wants to or can run fastecho or hpt.  Besides, you cant register   
   fastecho anymore anyway.  :-)   
      
   :-)   
      
   Matt   
      
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