My two cents. The recent virus that started Saturday nearly shut down the internet. It did this by overloading the system with email and probing calls. I believe we can help the world wide web by mak
???????? Try system level . Nothing so wimpy or narrow as a simple email virus! It was code aimed at database driven internet systems and information distribution network architecture. MS SQL databas
Scott McNeally (Sun) had a great comment on this 5+ years ago. He compared a overblown Microsoft email message with fonts and colors and a text message something like : "Let's hvae lunch" spelled inc
Text thrift may indeed be a virtue, but in this day of mpeg, jpeg, streaming video, mp3, internet radio and multi-gigabyte hard drives; our puny little emails must be a drop in the proverbial bit-buc
The attachment stripping mechanism of autox.team.net is brilliant. I am sick of people sending me pictures of a raindrop that they think has a funny shape, or a nail clipping that they found in their
- - - - - - - - - - The main reason for stripping attachments is to reduce the likelihood of propagating a virus. I have the lists I moderate set up that way. One worm getting onto a mailing list wit
There are guys like me who travel, and the two lists I had with attachments rapidly filled my emails inbox limit. As is, I usually have between 200 and 300 emails when I have been out of town for a w
Author: Charles & Peggy Robinson <ccrobins@ktc.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 10:35:37 -0600
I run a 56K MODEM. Downloading my email takes long enough as it is, without having to wait for pics of everyone's car, cat, dog, etc, to load. CR /// or try http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool ///
My 2 cents again. <<<snip>>> The main reason for stripping attachments is to reduce the likelihood of propagating a virus. <<<snip>>> That's the main reason why the attachment option was deleted from
As a Microsoft systems-administrator, please keep the list text-only and strip all attachments. Just because I work on MS systems doesn't mean I think they're efficient in any way :) At work we set o
Bob D. SEZ - It's not frugality, it's common courtesy. It's rude to broadcast binary files on a mailing list. If you have something to share, put it on a web site and mail the URL. Converseley, offer