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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 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
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