Re: Forbid attachments on AIX-L list?

From: Michael R Gettes (gettes_at_DUKE.EDU)
Date: 09/30/05 

Date:         Fri, 30 Sep 2005 17:24:10 -0400
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU

Hi Roger (long time!),

This list has been run since approximately 1990 (so long I can't recall
anymore when I first set it up) without such limitations on attachments.
To the best of my knowledge, sending this size attachment
(intentionally)
is a first. I think list etiquette should be respected and we should
not
enforce such rules on attachments. I'd prefer to not legislate against
stupidity, if you know what I mean. You may also want to get a larger
quota, I have 1GB. A little bit different from way back in our BITNET
days, eh Roger?

May you and everyone else have a wonderful weekend.

/mrg

On Sep 30, 2005, at 15:56, Roger Deschner wrote:

> Yesterday, a posting to this list contained an 8MB attachment. It blew
> my inbox quota and caused some incoming mail to be lost.
>
> I propose that the list be changed to disallow attachments. If you
> want
> to post something big, then post its URL. In this case it was an IBM
> Redbook, which definitely has a URL that could have been posted,
> instead
> of sending us all the whole pdf file.
>
> Roger Deschner University of Illinois at Chicago
> rogerd@uic.edu
>