In article <9408291623.AA29767@ah.com>, Eric Hughes <hughes@ah.com> wrote:
Based on Hal's numbers, I would suggest a reasonable quantization for message sizes be a short set of geometrically increasing values, namely, 1K, 4K, 16K, 64K. In retrospect, this seems like the obvious quantization, and not arithmetic progressions. Live and learn.
A brief suggestion: Code the progression, not the four values. As time goes on (and lossy sendmails disappear), people are sending larger and larger messages; it's easily conceivable that people could be swapping multiMB files at some point in the not too distant future (indeed, I do occasionally send out files that are 4-5 MB large, uuencoded binaries and tar files). No point in limiting future behavior due to current usage. -- L. Todd Masco | "Which part of 'shall not be infringed' didn't cactus@bb.com | you understand?"