Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???
Steve Lamb wrote:
>
[snippage]
> Most, if not all ISPs give people space for the storage of incoming mail,
> web pages and anonymous FTP. This is exactly what I was refering to when I
> wrote my message to Hamish and is also the exact reason why large attachments
> are considered a DoS. This is because ISPs do limit a large attachment could
> exceed the person's disk quota, causing them to loose mail or be charged for
> the extra disk space. Many companies and orginizations, too, limit disk
> space in the same manner. One can control the size of what is placed there
> for others to get, one cannot control the size of what is received through
> email.
[snippage]
>
> And the other point I touch on. A lot of times people don't want the
> attachments. Sometimes they do. An embedded URL allows the recipiant to
> decide if they want to download an attachment.
I have a few friends that send me attachments on an almost daily basis.
Some of the are quite large. I'd prefer if they'd pass along the URL so
I could check out the content before deciding to ftp it to my machine.
Case in point:
My boss received a new computer at work, and along with it, a district
wide email system. She sent me a bunch of stuff that must have totaled
around 10 meg. The kicker is that she accidentally sent it to me again
the next day!
I'm on a dialup account (until Saturday that is, whoohoo!) and spending
an hour downloading email gets to be ridiculous. I may be asking too
much of my friends, because, a lot of the messages I get are forwarded,
and they exhibit the box-within-a-box pattern.
ho-hum
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