On Sun, 12 Jul 1992 21:16:32 EST Murph Sewall <SEWALL@UCONNVM> said:
 
>I thought BITNET imposed as size limit of 300K that effectively prevents
>getting larger files from LISTSERV (at least by email though perhaps not
>by message)?
 
Fortunately, this is true only in  theory, and due to the extreme inertia
of the BITNET board  in this respect. This made sense  in 1985, when more
than 50% of the BITNET traffic  had to go through an ever-backlogged 9.6k
link, but that  was a long time ago.  There is some hope for  a change in
the foreseeable  future, though: CREN  has financed the development  of a
BITNET user's  guide for VMS,  and the  resulting file is  already larger
than the holy  300k. For now the  official line is that one  will have to
use FTP if one  wants the BITNET user's guide in a  single piece, but the
obvious ridiculousness of this argument seems  to have had some impact. I
have no idea what  will be decided nor when, but I  assume the board will
want  to avoid  having to  tell  users that  they should  connect to  the
Internet so  they can  be allowed  to legally  get a  copy of  the BITNET
user's guide :-)
 
  Eric