EMAIL != FTP

Fri May 25 22:18:56 UTC 2001

Robert Sharp wrote:

> Have you ever seen USENET if you wanna talk about a waste of bandwidth by
> UUencoding files you should start there first, email is the least of your
> problems in this arena....  one ten meg attachment on an email isn't anything
> compared to the alt.binaries traffic.  Yet no one has an issue with that.....

Apples != oranges. You can avoid reading the binaries groups, and server
admins
can refuse to carry them.

Once an e-mail is dumped in your mailbox, you can't automagically delete
it if
you are Joe Sixpack Average NetUser. You either have to go in with your
e-mail
client and download and delete it, or ask your ISP to nuke the message.

*My* experience is that people who weren't expecting the big files from
the yahoos that send it to them think their e-mail is broken until they
call
and I check their mail spool and see there's a big file (obviously the
situation
is slightly different if they were expecting the message, but there are
a lot of
times when I hear that someone's friend or relative just dumped a big
mail in
their box). Large files are an annoyance to the customer in cases like
that.

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