[394] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Irresponsible use of mail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Clive Dawson)
Mon Mar 18 17:53:42 1991
Date: Fri 15 Mar 91 12:12:18-CST
From: Clive Dawson <AI.CLIVE@MCC.COM>
To: com-priv@uu.psi.com
Given the recent traffic, I'd say it's safe to assume that all of
us are very familiar with anonymous FTP. I would hope that posters
think twice and send a pointer to a large document rather that
force these dinosaurs down our collective throats.
I remember a time when sending huge mail messages to a large list
was considered irresponsible and anti-social behavior. Some might
argue that network bandwidths have increased, but some of us are still
having to make do with 56KB lines and worse, not to mention limited
disk space.
I would prefer that this list not become a dueling ground where the
weapons are 400+ KByte Postscript files.
Thank you.
Clive Dawson
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