Re: request

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

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On 02/13/07 10:03, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 16:44 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 09:30:40AM -0800, a sh wrote:
>>> hi
>>>   I want debian etch sorce code and desktop picture.
>>>   I have advertisment purppose.
>>>   if it's possible for you  please sent to my mail.
>>>   thank
>> Your mailbox probably isn't large enough to receive over 10G of source
>> code. You can download what you want using "apt-get source"; you may
>> have to add a "deb-src" line to /etc/apt/sources.list before that'll
>> work, though. See "man sources.list" for details.
> 
> I'll bet your outgoing mail service pukes on it. Except for those of us
> that run our own service (and have enough bandwidth to service it), I'd
> expect that for any person's service provided by an ISP.

Just the thought of encoding (and decoding) 10GB of data in base64
gives me the willies.

The sender and recipient would need 15GB freespace on their $HOME
partition.

How do MUA's handle {en|de}coding attachments?  Do they suck first
the files into memory?  I guess it would work if you have a 64-bit
machine and *lots* of swap space.  Needless to say, performance
would tank.  You might even burn up your disk drives.

Thank $DEITY that Wouter Verhelst was being facetious.  It's still a
fun mental exercise, though.

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