[124813] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: What is "The Internet" TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe)
Mon Apr 5 12:22:07 2010
From: "Joe" <jbfixurpc@gmail.com>
To: "'Michael Sokolov'" <msokolov@ivan.Harhan.ORG>,
<nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 12:21:21 -0400
In-Reply-To: <1004051521.AA22864@ivan.Harhan.ORG>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I think its generally agreed that FTP is used for file transfers,
but unfortunately the option exists to attach files within an email =
thanks
in part to MS/AOL/Compuserve and numerous others long ago. I believe its =
due
in part to ease of use for those that aren't technically inclined to =
know
better, and make things "easier" for them (harder on others).=20
Kind of like cattle, if you leave a hole (or make a hole) in the fence
eventually it will be used and the only thing you can do is build a =
fence
outside of the hole to keep the heard from getting to far.
-Joe
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Sokolov [mailto:msokolov@ivan.Harhan.ORG]=20
> Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 11:22 AM
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: What is "The Internet" TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ?
>=20
>=20
> Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org> wrote:
>=20
> > if the script determined an email was > X bytes (100k?),=20
> the message=20
> > body was rewritten with:
> >
> > "Contents removed at LSUC, email is not a file transport protocol."=20
> > and the mail was left to continue on its path.
> >
> > i kinda feel like adding the same script back into my servers.
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> I have my Sendmail configured to cut off anything past 256 KB=20
> in the collect phase. At first I had it configured to reject=20
> the whole message (close the SMTP connection while the junk=20
> is still spewing), but people started assuming that my E-mail=20
> address was bad instead of realizing that they were sending=20
> oversize junk, so I've changed it to cut off and discard the=20
> excess fat, but still let the first 256 KB through so I at=20
> least see that someone tried to send me something.
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> Files are meant to be FTPed, not E-mailed. If someone is too=20
> stupid to use a real command line FTP client to upload a file=20
> to my FTP drop box, I make them use www.yousendit.com.
>=20
> MS
>=20
