On Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 03:31:34PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Work Tech Support at an ISP for two weeks. You'll get sick of hearing > from people who get 2-3Mb attachments from people which clogs their email > until Admin gets in there to clear it out. When they hear what the > attachment is, most times it is with exasperation that they will speak with > the individual who sent it since they didn't want it. Happens about 4-5 > times a week on a *small* ISP of only 7,000 customers. Meanwhile the > converse, people complaining about large mails not getting through is maybe > 4-5 a year.
Then educate your users and have your users educate their friends not to send them large attachments that they don't really want. Change the technology to fix a people problem? Ugh. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD. CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.
