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    Re: 6 months! —Mike Stanley
   (...) Well, generally speaking mail servers are "meant" to handle lots of little files, really tiny files on average. I don't know about most places, but a lot of the boxes I've seen have things like mailhost.x.x running on totally separate machines (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-98, to lugnet.starwars)
   
        Re: 6 months! —Richard Dee
     I do have a question regarding ftp downloads..... I was advised to find an ftp site to download this file. If, in the event I experienced the same problems downloading again, I could just go to the site again, and pick up where I had been "let off." (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-98, to lugnet.starwars)
    
         Re: 6 months! —Mike Stanley
      (...) Well, first I wouldn't use Communicator to ftp files, although it may be capable of rudimentary ftp commands. I would download a graphical ftp client like CuteFTP or BulletProof, both of which have resume capability. The server he's running (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-98, to lugnet.starwars)
    
         Re: 6 months! —Terry Keller
     (...) You might also try the program GetRight: (URL) is great for downloading files - especially large ones. -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 25-Nov-98, to lugnet.starwars)
   
        Re: 6 months! —Matthew Miller
   (...) Yeah -- this is true in addition to my earlier comments. The U of Washington POP/IMAP server (pretty popular) at least seems to load currently-being-downloaded messages completely into RAM. So a lot of people sending big files can fill up a (...) (26 years ago, 25-Nov-98, to lugnet.starwars)
 

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