Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???
--- Jiri Baum <jiri@baum.com.au> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Stefan Nobis:
> > Do you get the point? To send emails bigger than
> about 40-80KB without
> > being asked to do so and without asking the
> recipient is not very nice
> > and i would call it an offence.
>
> Your point being?
>
> Everyone knows that you shouldn't in general send
> files over about 50 KB
> (or at least everyone that's read RFC 1855).
> Everyone knows you shouldn't
> send large amounts of unsolicited information to
> people.
No they don't! My wife routinely gets attachments in
the 300-600K range from her friend back home.
Yesterday, her friend sent a couple of files called
something like easterbunny.exe both about 1.5M.
Obviously this is a DOS|Windows executable file of no
use to her anyway. Probably a stupid jumping bunny
greeting card!
This friend has a cable modem so doesn't notice the
time it would take to download a file that size. I
conversely have a 33.6 dialup connection. If I were
fetching that file from pop3 I would have been really
upset. Luckily my wife uses a yahoo.com webmail
account like I do so I was able to see the message
while it sat on yahoo's server and delete it when I
saw what kind of file it was without having to
download it.
So, from experience, everyone does not know and most
don't care. IMO all mailers should be _required_ to
limit attachment size and inform the user of a proper
way to handle file transfer. As an aside, this person
sends .doc files regularly too; luckily we're not
susceptible to their evils.
Regards, G.S.
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