North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: EMAIL != FTP
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. -- Tired of Earthlink? Get JustTheNet! Nationwide Dialup, ISDN, DSL, ATM, Frame Relay, T-1, T-3, and more. EARTHLINK AMNESTY PROGRAM: Buy a year, get two months free More info coming soon to http://JustThe.net, or e-mail me! B!ff: K3wl, w3'v3 r00t3D da [email protected] 0h CrAp, INC0M!Ng $%^NO CARRIER
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