On Thu, 2 Apr 1998 17:00:56 +0200 (CEST), you wrote: >On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > >> At my lab, after installing MS-Outlook as the `corporate EMail system', >> the Informatics guy send 200 users a document explaining that each user >> had a 20 MB mailbox limit and explained how to automatically delete `old' >> mail. >> >> His 1-page note was sent as a 1MB Word document filling up 5% of everyone's >> mailbox, using up a lot of ressources to send in 200 copies! > >Well, I can tell you that where I work (not for Philips actually, don't >blame them.) 15,000 other people work. And yes, we do get sent word >documents by the mass. The address list they use for that purpose is split >on alphabet. The result is that the word document is not the biggest part, >the header is: 300KB just for the letter k. Add to that the size of the >body and multiply by 15,000 <sigh>
This same thing happens here. If you send to a "mailing list" it adds everyone on that list to the "To:" line. Ugh. Last place I worked, we used cc:Mail. Our connection to our parent company was by a 14.4 modem. Some people would send huge (3Meg) power point things, or 3 line word documents with full color company logo bitmaps for letterhead. The real problem was that the phone line was shared with our fax machine and our dial up ISP. I considered those 2 hour messages as a denial of service attack and limited the size of received mail to 100k or so. I was about ready to write a program that would examine the cc:Mail logs and generate some kind of reply, containing some "hints" on proper mail conduct, but never got my roundtuit. Dale -- Dale P. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cleveland Linux Users Group: http://cleveland.lug.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
