Re: How large should parts of posts be?

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Henning Klaskala (bm321465@muenchen.org)
Tue, 3 Jun 1997 03:07:21 +0200 (MET DST)


Martin Leese wrote:
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> FAQs can be any size you like. A useful rule-of-thumb is 64 KBytes.
> This rule exists because in the past some e-mail systems limited
> messages to this size. I doubt they do so today, but the rule is
> still useful just in case.

There seem to be even smaller limits on some sites:
The 3 parts of my FAQ are between 50 KByte and 61 KByte each.
Two months ago an AOL user posted that all 3 parts appeared
truncated, probably because of her site's post length limit.

Henning