[37860] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Stealth Blocking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Rothschild)
Fri May 25 03:26:34 2001
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 01:16:03 -0400
From: Adam Rothschild <asr@latency.net>
To: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Message-ID: <20010525011603.E83144@og.latency.net>
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In-Reply-To: <9DC8BBAD4FF100408FC7D18D1F0922860E468D@condor.mhsc.com>; from rmeyer@mhsc.com on Thu, May 24, 2001 at 06:27:50PM -0700
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On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 06:27:50PM -0700, Roeland Meyer wrote:
> Is too... I send large documents regularly, via email. I just sent a
> 125 page word doc, with about 20 embedded Visio drawings and a bunch
> of embedded Excel spreadsheets. It was huge.
My condolences.
> Most of the recipients are on dialups with Win98. How else do you
> expect me to get it to them ... FTP? Most of them are NOT computer
> jocks.
https+auth with an interface designed to cater to the technologically
impaired, perhaps?
I can't speak for your clients, but if I were using a substandard
workstation OS with a local mail client, crawling along on dialup, I
certainly would not enjoy downloading large multi-megabyte mail
attachments. More importantly, the high thresholds required on the
recipient's MTA in order to receive such mail do significantly weaken
their defenses against certain forms of abuse.
-adam
