🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <KARL.90Dec12194010@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu> karl_kleinpaste@cis.ohio-state.edu writes:
>Mail-based archive servers are a disease which should be stamped out
>wherever they are found.
>
>A whole slew of CompuServe users appears to have discovered the
>wonders of bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu in the last week or so, not to
>mention not a few other similar addresses.  Then there's the real
>humans out there who are sending multi-megabyte blortfuls in to
>themselves and their pals.

> ... stuff deleted ...

>We are considering, for the sake of gateway sanity, aggressively
>blowing away anything that clearly comes from or is going to an
>archive server.  This will require some administrative nonsense that I
>don't like, because I _really_ don't like peeking in other people's
>mail.  But we have to get control of the machines again.

I dig it Karl, the overload problem is getting to you. So you post your
message to this group. How will anyone reading your wailings and flailings
help resolve the problems?  Have you sent this message to John James or Pete
Holsberg? Shall I?

Who's sending multi-megabyte blortfuls? CIS mailboxes can conatain multi-
megabytes?
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 Jean-Pierre Radley	    NYC Public Unix	jpr@jpr.com	CIS: 72160,1341