Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 17:38:00 +0000 From: Robin Melville <robmel@nadt.org.uk> To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <mountin.man@mixcom.com>, Scot Elliott <scot@poptart.org>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail - low on space Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980203173800.007de100@wrcmail> In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980128195410.007178ac@198.137.186.100> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980128185432.11194B-100000@uranus.planet-thr ee.com> <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980128122415.3649G-100000@mercury.jorsm.com>
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At 19:54 28/01/98 -0600, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: >At 06:58 PM 1/28/98 +0000, Scot Elliott wrote: >>On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Jeff Lynch wrote: >> >>> Yikes. I would set it at 20MB or 30MB and explain why it is necessary. If >>> they have an occaisonal need you can always jack it up temporarily. >>> It you leave it unlimited, you'll probably be sorry. >> >>I totally agree with this. EMail was just not designed for rediculously >>large transfers like this. It's inefficient because there's no restart >>facility (I dont think...) in case a connection gets broken, like there is >>with FTP and HTTP. > >What burns me is that they don't compress large files. Don't want to teach them how to use WinZip, make it self-extracting. >... >Still it wasn't as bad as the idiot that sent a 42 MB file to a fellow worker, who-was-in-the-same-office!!! Hello?! Did you local network crash? Better still, I had a clown who decided that a good backup system would be to email herself the entire contents of her PC hd.. fortunately only a 500Mb disk. That was fun... -------------------------------------------------------- Robin Melville, Addiction & Forensic Information Service Nottingham Alcohol & Drug Team (Extn. 49178) Vox: +44 (0)115 952 9478 Fax: +44 (0)115 952 9421 Email: robmel@nadt.org.uk WWW: http://www.innotts.co.uk/nadt/ ---------------------------------------------------------
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