Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!xenitec!iguana!merce
From: merce@iguana.uucp (Jim Mercer)
Subject: Re: BITFTP grief!
Message-ID: <1991May17.041635.4503@iguana.uucp>
Organization: Ed (the iguana) Memorial Society
References: <1991May15.042146.29800@iguana.uucp> <ZN9Z22w163w@phoenix.com>
Date: Fri, 17 May 91 04:16:35 GMT

In article <ZN9Z22w163w@phoenix.com> stanley@phoenix.com (John Stanley) writes:
>merce@iguana.uucp (Jim Mercer) writes:
>> we can put in place all the filters we want, but the only way to resolve this
>> issue of file transfer by email is Education.
>
>   The only way to solve the problem is to teach uucico to keep track of
>free space and inodes, and to stop accepting anything until there is
>space. "Can't tango - no space". And to notify the admin about the
>problem. This would solve the problem since uucico would happily pass
>the mail on, news would unbatch and expire, and then there would be
>space for more. 

changing uucico is not solving the problem of MBAS abuse.  it solves the
problem of low spool space.

this can also be solved by throwing hardware at it.

the point is that we are providing email forwarding services as a benefit
to the local uucp community, who by and large use it in a reasonable manner.

it's assholes and ignoramuses who absolutely positively have to have THAT
file, but are not willing to pay their own way.

email is for messaging, not file transfers.

>   What will you do when someone posts a request for something and
>dozens of people mail it to him? 

again, email is for messaging, not file transfers.

>> how much of a net.lobby do we have to do to get pucc.princeton.edu to shut
>> down BITFTP?
>
>   No! This is a valuable service to the entire UUCP community. Well, at
>least it is here. 

No! BITFTP is a terrible DIS-service to the entire UUCP community.

talk to the sites in Ontario, Canada, who are possibly going to lose all
internet connectivity partially due to increased mail volume (ie. BITFTP).

>   Your problem (which is the same problem here, BTW) is that a UUCP
>connection will happily accept that which it cannot store. The BITFTP
>connection is just a symptom.

excuse me?

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