Robert Sharp wrote:
Have you ever seen USENET if you wanna talk about a waste of bandwidth by UUencoding files you should start there first, email is the least of your problems in this arena.... one ten meg attachment on an email isn't anything compared to the alt.binaries traffic. Yet no one has an issue with that.....
Apples != oranges. You can avoid reading the binaries groups, and server admins can refuse to carry them. Once an e-mail is dumped in your mailbox, you can't automagically delete it if you are Joe Sixpack Average NetUser. You either have to go in with your e-mail client and download and delete it, or ask your ISP to nuke the message. *My* experience is that people who weren't expecting the big files from the yahoos that send it to them think their e-mail is broken until they call and I check their mail spool and see there's a big file (obviously the situation is slightly different if they were expecting the message, but there are a lot of times when I hear that someone's friend or relative just dumped a big mail in their box). Large files are an annoyance to the customer in cases like that. -- Tired of Earthlink? Get JustTheNet! Nationwide Dialup, ISDN, DSL, ATM, Frame Relay, T-1, T-3, and more. EARTHLINK AMNESTY PROGRAM: Buy a year, get two months free More info coming soon to http://JustThe.net, or e-mail me! B!ff: K3wl, w3'v3 r00t3D da N@vy... 0h CrAp, INC0M!Ng $%^NO CARRIER