On Sun, 5 Jul 1992 19:34:00 -0500 John B Harlan <[log in to unmask]> said: > I'd be interested in knowing of any ListServ sites that have >locally modified their limit -- either to increase or decrease -- and >their rationale for a change in either direction. The limits are definitely low for today's network (they were introduced many years ago when BITNET was still BSC-based) - at least when you think about the US and european countries with good IP connectivity. On the other hand, there are still many countries/sites with 9.6k BSC links, and it may be the best that they can get/afford. So one can't have a limit which is perfect for everyone. The defaults are probably appropriate for a "normal" LISTSERV without any file archive, ie one where the only things one might want to GET are the standard files (helpfiles, LDBASE, etc) and archived list postings. As soon as you start offering big software packages, it becomes clear that you need to allow more than 256k/day. Eric