message size limit?

Is there a limit on the size of messages that can be posted here?
I've repeatedly tried to post a long one, and it just won't post.

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OM om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org
wrote:

On 25 Aug 2003 04:18:14 GMT, "Jorge R. Frank"
wrote:

Jan Philips wrote in
:

Is there a limit on the size of messages that can be posted here?
I've repeatedly tried to post a long one, and it just won't post.

Different news servers have different settings for maximum file size.
However, it's typically in the 500 KB - 1 MB range.

...Before I discontinued posting the Columbia Loss FAQ text version
here, the size was approaching some 400k in size, and I never had a
problem posting it. However, just because I didn't have problems with
it doesn't mean *you* should do it. Remember, some of our overseas
brethren are bandwidth-challenged, and large posts they *pay* out the
wazoo for.


OM

Hell, some of our *domestic* brethren are still stuck in dial-up hell!
(Not me: gotta love cable that AVERAGES 1.6MB/sec, no?) At my old
house, not 15 miles from here but in a very rural corner of the county,
was stuck at 44 kpbs dial-up and I was lucky to get it that good.

That said, there is no reason for a non-binaries newsgroup to have posts
that long, certainly not routinely.

--
Herb Schaltegger, B.S., J.D.
Reformed Aerospace Engineer
"Heisenberg might have been here."
~ Anonymous

On 25 Aug 2003 13:49:24 GMT, "Jorge R. Frank"
wrote:

Oh, I'm definitely not suggesting that he post something that large... just
saying that most servers impose a pretty large limit, so that was unlikely
to be the cause of his first post getting lost.

....Most of those limits are imposed by usenet providers that don't
want binary traffic routed through their resources. The problem is
that there are groups dealing with binaries that have a legitimate
reason for existence, such as those dealing with astronomy. Such
limits applied arbitrarily cause more damage than not. Netcom pulled
this **** years ago, and I dropped them like a care package from a
Maxson.

OM

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