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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Stealth Blocking
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 10:23:23AM -0700, Eric A. Hall exclaimed: > The negative side effect is that it cripples people who use email as a > file transfer protocol. fortunately, SMTP != FTP. It's a tossup whether it's more irritating to find 5 spams in my inbox or 1 5MB attachment from a salesdroid that things cc:ing a mailing list with his latest Excel spreadsheet is a good idea. The more that can be done to introduce people to the concept of using the right tool for the job, the better. SMTP is not the right tool for the job of transferring large files. </pet peeve> > That would be nice as well and is something I've advocated. ISPs seem > unwilling to do this, and it would seem that implementing a default > low-bandwidth rate limit would mean less maintenance. I can't figure why anybody would be unwilling to do this ... just make it a part of your ToS that email takes one week to set up after the initial account setup. Have the account order/setup date in a database, and a cron job that runs daily to activate accounts with setup dates > 1 week previous. > -- > Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ > Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/ -- Scott Francis [email protected] [work:] v i r t u a l i s . c o m Systems Analyst [email protected] [home:] d a r k u n c l e . n e t West Coast Network Ops GPG keyid 0xCB33CCA7 illum oportet crescere me autem minui Attachment:
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