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Re: 6 months!
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Date: 
Wed, 25 Nov 1998 00:18:57 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.=NoSpam=org
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Mike Stanley <cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com> wrote:
attaching to it at any given time (probably more for our main
popserver at utk) with a 24 meg file that your average POP reader may
or may not decide to sit through the transfer?

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 lot of RAM really quickly -- most
small/medium ISPs won't have more than 128 or 256 on their servers.


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Matthew Miller                      --->                  mattdm@mattdm.org
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(...) 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)

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