On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:30:58 -0400 Charlie Seaman wrote: > Jarle H Knudsen wrote: > > Friday, September 7, 2007, 8:34:35 PM, amjad syed > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> The build log is here and ther error is at the end > >> > > > > I do NOT appreaciate receiving 11 MB attachments on discussion > > lists. > > > > Please configure the list sofware so it does not distribute large > > messages in the future. > > > > > You can solve that problem very easily by pressing the delete key. > Maybe the user should not have sent such a large file, but things > happen. >
Charles: you are missing the problem itself. Those of us on dialup do not want to wait up to an hour for an email to download that we may have no interest in. It ties up the internet, the average mail program, and slows your computers usability for that period of time. Jarle: an interim solution may be to install Mailwasher if you have a windows machine. IIUC this downloads the first 1k of every email (enough to get the headers and the first paragraph or so). It is designed as an anti-spam program but comes in useful for the thoughtless people that send the latest funny that just happens to be a PDF, powerpoint, or flash file. Usually with the subject "Forward this on" etc. Once mailwasher has run you can delete offending posts on the server without downloading. http://www.mailwasher.net/faq NOTE:Mailwasher is not open source as far as i can tell, if anyone knows an opensource alternative, i would be happy to promote that. -- Michael Linux: The OS people choose without $200,000,000 of persuasion. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
