From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!wbux5!wb2!houxz!ihnp4!ixn5c!inuxc!pur-ee!malcolm
Newsgroups: net.notes
Title: Re: large notes don't work - (nf)
Article-I.D.: pur-ee.837
Posted: Sat Mar 12 22:26:49 1983
Received: Sun Mar 13 14:26:31 1983

#R:sri-unix:1000029:pur-ee:13000015:000:529
pur-ee!malcolm    Mar 12 20:57:00 1983

You're right...the 64K article limit is a design flaw with notes.  The
original design (13 months ago) only allowed notes to be 20 lines long
and the newsinput program made the extra lines into followup notes.  A
few months ago, Ray said it would be very hard to change this limitation
because all the notesfile databases would have to change.

I guess, either way, it is not going to be easy.  Maybe in the next 
notes release the pointers can be increased to 32 bits and we can stop
worrying about this problem.

						Malcolm