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Re: ftpmail data

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From: Kent Paul Dolan
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1991 02:38
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 vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) writes:
>> Perhaps you could add a GIF-rejecter [to ftpmail]?

>> Lance Norskog

> are all files whose names end in .gif to be considered junque?

Unfortunately not, since it is quite as possible to
archive in a *.gif an interesting cell cross-section
or scanning electron micrograph for ftp as a scanned
girlie mag photo. Contrariwise, not all the latter
travel as *.gif files; there are over a hundred
various archive formats in common use on the net, of
which GIFs are only one.

You might want to count the *.gif by number and
volume being fetched, if it is easy to do, just to
check whether they become a part of the volume
eliminating which would bring your server back
within cost goals.

Kent, the man from xanth.
<xanthian@Zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <xanthian@well.sf.ca.us>
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From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan)
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Subject: Re: ftpmail data
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.023815.19212@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
Date: 6 Jun 91 02:38:15 GMT
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