Subj : *.pkt
To   : Richard Webb
From : Mike Tripp
Date : Fri Mar 19 2010 12:08 pm

Hello Richard!

18 Mar 10 15:23, Richard Webb wrote to Mike Tripp:

 RW> Agreed again.  I think, the behavior I mentioned earlier
 RW> this thread of splitting large messages works because I"m
 RW> using the large buffers setting.  OTherwise ymmv.  I think
 RW> the docs mention something about the behavior changing
 RW> according to buffer size, i.e. squish will behave as it did
 RW> with earlier versions if you use medium or small buffers.

Squish does not do any message splitting...though I do not recall whether it 
renames the PKT to LNG or BAD for later reprocessing.  The only change I'm 
aware of between versions was new numeric values for Small/Medium/Large and the 
ability to assign them (or explicit numeric values) to the 3 individual 
buffers.

I did all sorts of convolutions to get a utility called PKTSort to do the 
splitting by pre-processing the inbound directory while it was actually 
designed to post-process the outbound directory. I eventually found a newsgroup 
gating util called NGate which bypasses tossing and transfers messages directly 
between NNTP server and squishbase...and still did a batch manipulation of the 
Buffers statement in SQUISH.CFG just for scanning the newsgroups out to 
downlinks.

After monitoring the messages >256K for a bit, I decided that I didn't really 
need to be forwarding the spam or uuencoded "stuff" that either belonged in a 
binary group or the bit-bucket anyway.

ymmv also,
..\\ike

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