[37940] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: EMAIL != FTP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Sobol)
Fri May 25 22:35:13 2001
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Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 18:18:56 -0400
From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net>
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To: Robert Sharp <rsharp@appliedtheory.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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Robert Sharp wrote:
> Have you ever seen USENET if you wanna talk about a waste of bandwidth by
> UUencoding files you should start there first, email is the least of your
> problems in this arena.... one ten meg attachment on an email isn't anything
> compared to the alt.binaries traffic. Yet no one has an issue with that.....
Apples != oranges. You can avoid reading the binaries groups, and server
admins
can refuse to carry them.
Once an e-mail is dumped in your mailbox, you can't automagically delete
it if
you are Joe Sixpack Average NetUser. You either have to go in with your
e-mail
client and download and delete it, or ask your ISP to nuke the message.
*My* experience is that people who weren't expecting the big files from
the yahoos that send it to them think their e-mail is broken until they
call
and I check their mail spool and see there's a big file (obviously the
situation
is slightly different if they were expecting the message, but there are
a lot of
times when I hear that someone's friend or relative just dumped a big
mail in
their box). Large files are an annoyance to the customer in cases like
that.
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