On 3 Apr 2003 at 13:33, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > On Thursday, April 03, 2003 12:30 PM [GMT+0530=IST], > Devdas Bhagat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > VSNL leased lines have (or had?) this talent for going down and staying > down over long periods. UUCP over a phone link is a rather nice thing > to have during those times ... and there's no guarantee that all his > locations are connected over leased lines. Even then - given high > bandwidth costs and corporate tendency to send huge multi megabyte > powerpoint attachments in email, UUCP is a rather good idea for people > who are worried about bandwidth.
And probably zip the attachments on the fly, depending upon mime header, if possible. The extent upto which word or ppts can be compressed is rather amazing.. Bye Shridhar -- Time is fluid ... like a river with currents, eddies, backwash. -- Spock, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate 3134.0 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ValueWeb: Dedicated Hosting for just $79/mo with 500 GB of bandwidth! No other company gives more support or power for your dedicated server http://click.atdmt.com/AFF/go/sdnxxaff00300020aff/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
