On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 20:59 +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > OoO Lors de la soirée naissante du mardi 04 novembre 2008, vers 18:39, > Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> disait : > This kind of service is really useful for users that keep sending large > piece of data through mail servers and then complain that this does not > work. They need an easy service allowing to send large files without > learning something new (like a FTP client), which is almost as fast as > attaching a document to an email and provides the same privacy options > than an unencrypted email (so, uploading to a shared FTP is not an > option, unless you excessively tune the FTP server). Otherwise, they > will just keep sending files via mail. Sorry, that just smacks of "let's not bother educating users, let's add yet more packages instead". Besides, FTP is new and Fex is not ??? How about helping users see that sending a 40Gb PowerPoint document is not actually friendly - no matter how you send it? (You think I'm joking?!) Stop it. If it bothers the sysadmin that much, write code that strips the attachment and puts it onto a website or ftp server and attaches a comment to the email along the lines of how mailing list details are added to lots of other emails. Sorry, this package just fixes the wrong problem in the wrong way using the wrong tools, IMHO. Do we really need to waste our time on this kind of package when we should actually be trying to get Lenny out? Sponsoring is not an excuse for uploading bonkers packages. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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