Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???
Frankly I couldn't care less about whether or not you use procmail, exim,
or UUCP. Any and all of them have the capability to accept attachments.
My point is that there are times when large attachments to email are not
only desirable, but the easiest solution. I agree that there is abuse,
but let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater. FYI I did the large
attachment over email thing on a 14.4 modem, and I had no real problem
because I asked dad to send it to me--and neither he nor I had Zip disks
at the time: this has changed since then, but then again, Zip disks
weren't on the market when I did this--so you're too late: and 1.44M/disk
was a bit on the punishing side. The technology for large attachemnts
over email existed long before sneakernetting large files was feasable for
the home PC (however I remember sneakernetting a 5-platter disk-pack for a
Basic-4 many a moon ago, those things are HEAVY). In fact, I asked for
the correct protocol, and all you gave me was sneakernet. Sneakernet is
never the correct protocol, it's just a quick and dirty method of getting
files between comps when you don't wish to use the correct protocol.
On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Steve Lamb wrote:
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> On Tue, 6 Apr 1999 04:44:00 -0600 (MDT), John Galt wrote:
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> >SNEAKERNET just because YOU can't configure procmail? I'd say that your
> >failure to configure procmail is YOUR problem, not one to be visited on
> >the internet at large. I've sneakernetted files of a size that would
> >make you blanch in my day, but I see no reason to do this as a matter of
> >protocol, not when there exists a simple method to do so, regardless of
> >whether or not you like the method.
>
> Because I can't configure procmail?
>
> 1: I can configure procmail.
> 2: I choose not to because I use Exim's filtering
> 3: I can configure Exim's filtering.
> 4: None of which matters because I operate my own connection on a 33.6k
> modem which means the file is ALREADY received before I get a chance to
> filter it.
>
> When there exists a simple method. There are several such methods which
> are PROPER. But if the IT department doesn'y allow them, tough. If the ISP
> doesn't allow them, change ISPs. But use the proper protocol. That is what
> is known as playing nice in the playground with the other kids.
>
>
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