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- From: kd1hz@anomaly.sbs.com (Michael P. Deignan)
- Subject: Re: Looking for QWK mail maker for Unix
- Organization: Small Business Systems, Incorporated, Smithfield, RI 02917
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 15:49:09 GMT
- Message-ID: <C1BD9y.DvF@anomaly.sbs.com>
- References: <1j4i5tINN2ai@uwm.edu> <1jm94tINN8rv@mirror.digex.com>
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- tdarcos@digex.digex.com (Paul Robinson) writes:
-
- >Reading news is not much problem. The messages are all in spool files,
- >one message per file (on Unix systems, anyway) and the directories
- >indicate the names of the archives. The main problem would be in
- >how people signed up for them and will their QWK readers handle the
- >size of the articles.
-
- The main problem is From/To/Subject lines. The QWK format allocates
- 25 bytes to each of these fields. Your e-mail address, 23 bytes,
- would hardly fit. My e-mail address, "kd1hz@anomaly.sbs.risc.net",
- is 26 characters so it wouldn't fit. Not to mention that the
- Subject of this very posting is beyond the 25 byte limit!
-
- MD
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