On 3 Apr 1999, Stefan Nobis wrote: > I get from time to time mails from friends and even from people i > don't know with attachments some times greater than 1MB. And i'm > always very angry about it, cause i do pay for my telphone connection > (4 minutes costs me 12 german Pfennige, about 0,07US$). And none of > these persons asked me, if i'm interested in the picture, large text, > animation or the like. And never asked i someone of these to send me > that thing. > > I talked to much other users and i often get excatly that complaint. > > And this has nothing to do with mailinglists. > > But if you are so happy about big emails, what about sending you the > X11 sources? Without asking you about sending it. Will you be happy > about that? > > The question is: What is big and what is too big? Everybody i can > think of will get angry if i send him/her the X11 sources without > being asked to do so. So X11 sources are clearly too big. What about a > 50MB animation? What about a 5MB picture? What about a 100KB text? > > Do you get the point? To send emails bigger than about 40-80KB without > being asked to do so and without asking the recipient is not very nice > and i would call it an offence.
Even though I have flat-rate telephone service, I also get upset with large emails. Since I use POP3 to retrieve my mail from my ISP, I found that using the "limit" parameter in my .fetchmailrc is a good way to keep those which are ridiculously long from being fetched. When I see that some have been kept back because of this I telnet into the ISP and check the mail in question. If I want it, I save the message into a file and ftp it; otherwise I delete the message. I have found this method quite useful. A few times I have gone over the ISP's quota on disk usage, but so far I haven't incurred any charges. Bob ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
