On Thursday 14 June 2007 00:41, Philip Thompson wrote: > On Jun 13, 2007, at 1:15 PM, Richard Lynch wrote: > > On Wed, June 13, 2007 12:21 am, Crayon Shin Chan wrote: > >> On Wednesday 13 June 2007 12:39, Paul Scott wrote: > >>> Our interns and students specifically. They are all dead scared of > >>> joining mailing lists in general, and find that using a web based > >>> prettier interface is much easier and friendlier. > >> > >> Not to mention slower, clumsier and more bandwidth hungry than a > >> mailing list. It's time you did them a favour and show them that > >> mailing lists > >> are nothing to be afraid of. > > > > Do students and interns still have quotas on their email accounts?... > > Yes. It does depend on the university though. For our students, the > default is only 50 megs - they may request more. However, these text- > only emails don't really take up that much space. > > > Cuz I *DO* remember the days when the email quotas a University would > > have prohibited subscribing to PHP mailing list... > > This is not currently the case..... > > > Surely in this day and age, the quotas aren't *that* restrictive...
There seems to be some failure to comunicate (I believe the Prodigy said that)... whatever, quotas on the universities will not keep you from recieving mail... or download anything of the net. It just defines the space available to the user. The temporary space available lets you pull way more, and get a delete warning from either an automated system or an admin (at my university, wasn't it 10 days or so before forced deletion on random objects occured?... dunno). Imagine an master or phD degree getting lost because someone set up an university server with some weird download quota. This could hardly be _A_ reason for makin' this blog... the amount of mail or numbers should not be an issue. If it is so... how about them digest mails? > > True. > > > ~Philip -- --- Børge http://www.arivene.net --- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
