On Wed, 24 Apr 91 16:35:38 +0200 Eric Thomas said: >I'd say it depends on the size of the file. If the gateway imposes an >unreasonably low limit, like 20k, complain to the maintainer. If on the >other hand the archive file is really too large even for normal BITNET >users, complain to the list owner and suggest he split it into smaller >files. In any case, you can use the database functions to retrieve parts >of the archive files. Well, for the record, the list in question is SAS-L, a very very active list. The log file requested contains 24,500 records. Our gateway has the following parameter MAXMAILBYTES 512000 Unless I am calculating this wrong, thats 500k. I just tried requesting this large log, from another VM system here, via TCP. OHSTVMA's gateway received negative reply, file too large. SMTP on the other VM also has MAXMAILBYTES set to 512000. Duane