Re: Email messages: How large is too large?

["Robert G. Ferrell" <root at rgfsparc.cr.usgs.gov>]

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>No, it would be an old protocol.  See RFC1440, from July 1993.
>
>Is there sufficient interest to create a working group to overhaul RFC1440
>into something more usable in today's Internet?

People using SMTP for large file transfer has been a pet peeve of mine for 
several years, having been tasked with administering email for a large federal 
agency (I don't do that anymore, thankfully, but I sympathize with admins who 
do), so I for one would be quite interested in participating in such an effort 

RGF

Robert G. Ferrell
Internet Technologist
National Business Center, US DoI
Robert_G_Ferrell at nbc.gov