eliminating MAXHEADERSIZE

Julien ÉLIE julien at trigofacile.com
Tue Aug 3 18:39:35 UTC 2010


Hi Florian,

I hope you enjoyed your holidays.


>> I also see that supporting 64-bit article numbers without latent bugs
>> is far from easy...
>> This "+10" in the code is a great pitfall...
>
> I just thought if you seriously think about 64-bit article numbers (will
> those ever be needed? I haven't seen any higher than single-digit
> millions apart from "junk" or "control.cancel")

AFAIK, it happens on binary groups (alt.binaries.boneless for instance).
Ray also had an issue with (old) Motzarella.


> you might want to create
> a constant ARTNUMPRINTSIZE or similar and substitute that straight
> away...

That's a nice piece of advice, thanks.
Juste done.

I see that actsync uses WATER_LEN; I changed the name to what you suggest.

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Julien ÉLIE

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