That's right, go over a certain size in anything MIME (we sent an 18K text
file last week) and your AOL subscribers will complain about ZIPped files.
That limit may vary depending on the AOL server, too.

- Fred Karp
Systems Manager
United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Rawson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 10:12 PM
Subject: Zipped Digests


> From a subscriber (on AOL):
>
> > Is there any way that our list can be "reformatted" so that we don't
> > get .zip files.  These are extremely cumbersome for those of us on
> > digest to read.  In the past week or so, I think I've received 4 in
> > that format.
>
> What is this?  Anyone know?
>
> I remember reading something about it (here?) recently, but now can't find
> the messages.  I  presume LISTSERV does not even know how to zip a digest.
> Is AOL in their infinite wisdom converting MIME digests above a certain
> size to .ZIP  format?
>
> Thanks for any info.
>
>
> -----
> Tom Rawson           [log in to unmask]