Steve Lamb wrote: > [snippage]
> Most, if not all ISPs give people space for the storage of incoming mail, > web pages and anonymous FTP. This is exactly what I was refering to when I > wrote my message to Hamish and is also the exact reason why large attachments > are considered a DoS. This is because ISPs do limit a large attachment could > exceed the person's disk quota, causing them to loose mail or be charged for > the extra disk space. Many companies and orginizations, too, limit disk > space in the same manner. One can control the size of what is placed there > for others to get, one cannot control the size of what is received through > email. [snippage] > > And the other point I touch on. A lot of times people don't want the > attachments. Sometimes they do. An embedded URL allows the recipiant to > decide if they want to download an attachment. I have a few friends that send me attachments on an almost daily basis. Some of the are quite large. I'd prefer if they'd pass along the URL so I could check out the content before deciding to ftp it to my machine. Case in point: My boss received a new computer at work, and along with it, a district wide email system. She sent me a bunch of stuff that must have totaled around 10 meg. The kicker is that she accidentally sent it to me again the next day! I'm on a dialup account (until Saturday that is, whoohoo!) and spending an hour downloading email gets to be ridiculous. I may be asking too much of my friends, because, a lot of the messages I get are forwarded, and they exhibit the box-within-a-box pattern. ho-hum -- __ _ Mark Wagnon Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chula Vista, CA /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _\_v____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\