Re: Can we lock the f'ing door already? (was Re: Any value in thislist ?)

[Ari Ollikainen]

At 9:23 PM -0700 8/1/01, grenville armitage wrote:
>Melinda Shore wrote:
>       [..]
> > You'll note, too, that just
> > because someone who would break into your house is a criminal miscreant
> > doesn't mean that you don't lock the doors.
>
>Good point. Can we get back to discussing how to lock the
>door? At least two approaches seem appealing to me - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>doesn't forward messages over 32 kbyte, and only forwards messages
>that are plain ASCII. So... who can actually make this happen,
>and why isn't it done yet?
>

        So...has anyone gone back and done the analysis on the archive
        to see what the actual message size range happens to be?

        32KB happens to be a bit on the largish side for ACSII TEXT
        messages.