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>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>:

> Right.  But you'll get a bounce message (or it'll just refuse the
> message and you get an error message immediately).  I think that's
> better than guessing at a limit, and then sending out split messages
> that most (I think) recipients can't read.

True.  Split messages is really bad.