Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by CS.UTK.EDU with SMTP (cf v2.9s-UTK) id PAA12190; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 15:05:35 -0500 (EST) Received: by cs.cs.utk.edu (bulk_mailer v1.9); Tue, 17 Mar 1998 15:02:20 -0500 Received: by CS.UTK.EDU (cf v2.9s-UTK) id PAA11829; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 15:02:18 -0500 (EST) Received: from resnick1.qualcomm.com (resnick1.qualcomm.com [206.139.85.98]) by CS.UTK.EDU with ESMTP (cf v2.9s-UTK) id PAA11728; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 15:00:57 -0500 (EST) Received: from resnick2.qualcomm.com (206.139.85.99) by resnick1.qualcomm.com with ESMTP (Eudora Internet Mail Server 2.1b1); Tue, 17 Mar 1998 14:00:47 -0600 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: resnick@resnick1.qualcomm.com Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <19980317100438.24361@snark.thyrsus.com> X-Mailer: Eudora [Macintosh version 4.0.1b13-4.98] Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 14:00:45 -0600 To: "Eric S. Raymond" From: Pete Resnick Subject: Re: Line limit in 2.3 considered obscure Cc: DRUMS List On 3/17/98 at 9:04 AM -0600, Eric S. Raymond wrote: >In 2.3, why 998 as a message size limit? Is this just random history? As I remember (it's been a while since I wrote that), there was a line limit in SMTP of 998 + CRLF and that limit has filtered down into MUAs (i.e., some MUAs are limited to 1000 character lines). pr -- Pete Resnick QUALCOMM Incorporated Work: (217)337-6377 or (619)651-4478 / Fax: (217)337-1980