Hi Group,

As far as length of postings, Blind Tech, JAWS beta and various other 
lists I have been on  routinely post whole electronic magazines in text 
form--many time thousands of lines in length with no problem.

On 3/18/2014 5:11 AM, Butch Bussen wrote:
> Yep, and if sending the stuff is that important, just break it up in to
> 2 or 3 files as has been done in the past.  I think the equsl 20 problem
> is more of a problem as we don't seem to know how to solve it.
> 73
> Butch
> WA0VJR
> Node 3148
> Wallace, ks.
>
>
> On Mon, 17
> Mar 2014, Alan R. Downing wrote:
>
>> I subscribe to a number of reflectors, and to the best of my knowledge,
>> there is a message length limit on each and everyone of them.  Setting a
>> maximum line count on postings is necessary to keep threads from growing and
>> growing, wasting storage and bandwidth at each step in the chain.
>> Maintaining a forum without a maximum line count, or limiting the size of
>> postings one way or another, is silly.  Most posters to forums don't take
>> the time to cut messages down to size when replying, and before long, the
>> resulting length of each post would choke the resources available to store
>> and distribute each one.
>>
>> Alan/KD7GC
>>
>>
>>
>> Alan R. Downing
>> Phoenix, AZ
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> On Behalf Of Ron Canazzi
>> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2014 11:17 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Fwd: Rejected posting to [log in to unmask]
>>
>> Hi Blind Hams List,
>>
>> There has been a lot of criticism of the way in which the Blind Hams
>> list has been handling 8 bit or 7 bit characters that result in all the
>> equal signs and other extraneous symbols.  Here's one I didn't realize
>> was also a bit of a problem.
>>
>> I wanted to send the entire copy (511 lines) of the ruling that Gary,
>> KB2YAA requested and thought that it would be a courtesy to send it to
>> the whole list.  Instead I get a rejection notice from the server
>> sayhing that it is too long.
>>
>> Keep in mind, there is no attachment or other superfluous graphics of
>> stuff that would make this message large in actual size, but the length
>> of the message in lines is apparently an issue.
>>
>> This is the only list where I have ever seen this.  I really wish it
>> could be changed to conform to modern standards.  I will have to send
>> the message separately to Gary and thus deprive anyone else who is
>> interested.
>>
>> See below.
>>
>>
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: 	Rejected posting to [log in to unmask]
>> Date: 	Tue, 18 Mar 2014 02:02:09 -0400
>> From: 	[log in to unmask]
>> To: 	Ron Canazzi <[log in to unmask]>
>>
>>
>>
>> Your message  cannot be distributed to  the BLIND-HAMS list because  it
>> exceeds
>> the maximum message size of 250 lines. The size of your message was 511
>> lines.
>>
>> This limit has been set by the list owner and does not necessarily apply to
>> the
>> other lists  hosted at  LISTSERV.ICORS.ORG. If you  have any  questions,
>> please
>> contact the list owner at [log in to unmask]
>>
>>