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Subject:    Digest size problem
From:       "Amy Stinson" <amys () iquest ! net>
Date:       1997-03-28 20:49:57
Message-ID: 199703282047.MAA27687 () honor ! greatcircle ! com
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I have run a Smartlist list for over a year with varying degrees of
success, but have started getting messages such as these recently. The
digest is multi-part and it seems that AOL, Compuserve, and now
Sprynet has trouble with the "size" of the digest.   The only problem
have with this scenerio is that the maximum size of one of my digests 
is 26k, hardly large enough to cause a mail server to choke, but 
here's what the "technician" told one of my  users:

The subscriber wrote me:

    Had some mail problems this morning. In the course of
    conversation, the tech person who checked my mailbox at my
    request, said that the Digest messages were about at the length
    that would cause the system to have trouble with them (one was
    26K).

    I don't know enough about mailing lists to know whether this
    information might be useful for you. The technicians'c comment
    was that "there are ways to make the transmissions smaller, or
    they could be zipped".

I went from a 10000 line digest, to a 25k digest in order to get 
around the over 25k limit AOL had on mail messages (would turn them 
into attachments which people didn't know how to deal with) and now 
it's suggested I zip 25k digests?  It takes me 10 seconds on a slow 
download to get my digests (connected at 24000 or slower).

Any comments or suggestions?

Amy
Amy Stinson
Mailto:amys@iquest.net
Http://www.iquest.net/~amys

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