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From: Clayton Haapala
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:52
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:52
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Folks, please restrain yourselves with FTP-by-mail! While most of you are content to pull the occasional megabyte archive from an Internet site, some of you enjoy pulling TENS of Megabytes in a single day via mail. Get a clue, folks! I don't want to put a "mail throttle" into the mailer at tcnet, just to keep abusers from denying service to the rest of the sites, but I may have to. Today, 12 Meg is sitting in spool space waiting to go to ONE site. It has been there all morning because that site has a busy phone line. This data has already tied up modem phone time on the single link between uum1 and tcnet, and will be tying up one of tcnet's modems for quite some time when it does get connected. Is this fair? -- Clayton Haapala (clayh@uum1.mn.org) Mail Admin for MN.Org
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Newsgroups: mn.general,mn.uum Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!uum1!clayh From: clayh@uum1.mn.org (Clayton Haapala) Subject: Mail hogs in MN.Org Organization: UNIX Users of Minnesota Distribution: mn Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:52:06 GMT Message-ID: <1992Nov19.155206.6694@uum1.mn.org> Lines: 16