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[Craig Partridge]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM Steve Crocker <steve at shinkuro.com> wrote:

>
> My next job was at ISI, and I started to use Marty Yonke's BananaRD.  One
> day it stopped working and I asked Marty to take a look.  After he looked,
> he exploded, "I never thought anyone would have more than 300 messages."
>
> Steve
>

According to Marty when I interviewed him in 2006, the limit was 5,000
messages (which was, to him at the time, an inconceivable number).  Also,
you and John Vittal apparently hit the limit at approximately the same time.

It was an error that got repeated.  I recall a story of Mike Karels
complaining to the BSD team in the late 1980s that BSD Mail was too slow --
it was determined that his mailbox was so big (multiple 10Ks of emails)
that some functions got bogged down.

Craig
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