--- Jiri Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Stefan Nobis: > > Do you get the point? To send emails bigger than > about 40-80KB without > > being asked to do so and without asking the > recipient is not very nice > > and i would call it an offence. > > Your point being? > > Everyone knows that you shouldn't in general send > files over about 50 KB > (or at least everyone that's read RFC 1855). > Everyone knows you shouldn't > send large amounts of unsolicited information to > people.
No they don't! My wife routinely gets attachments in the 300-600K range from her friend back home. Yesterday, her friend sent a couple of files called something like easterbunny.exe both about 1.5M. Obviously this is a DOS|Windows executable file of no use to her anyway. Probably a stupid jumping bunny greeting card! This friend has a cable modem so doesn't notice the time it would take to download a file that size. I conversely have a 33.6 dialup connection. If I were fetching that file from pop3 I would have been really upset. Luckily my wife uses a yahoo.com webmail account like I do so I was able to see the message while it sat on yahoo's server and delete it when I saw what kind of file it was without having to download it. So, from experience, everyone does not know and most don't care. IMO all mailers should be _required_ to limit attachment size and inform the user of a proper way to handle file transfer. As an aside, this person sends .doc files regularly too; luckily we're not susceptible to their evils. Regards, G.S. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com