Limitations
One limitation of Agora was that it had an integrated limit for the output mail of about 10000 lines (originally 5000) primarily to protect users and the network from excessive bandwidth/resource usage. With this limitation, uuencoded files would not exceed 1 megabyte because some operating systems and email clients had problems with files larger than 1MB. Uuencoded files used too much bandwidth and so data compression was integrated.
Since most websites contained links to inline images or binary files such as archives/executables Agora had to uuencode these files prior to sending them.
Usenet support was read only because the server was anonymous.
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