On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 08:53:57 -0500 (EST)
Net Llama! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, David A. Bandel wrote:
> > Obviously, folks do not understand how SMTP works or they'd stop sending Gb 
>attachments.  My mail servers will reject anything over 2Mb because it chokes the 
>pipes.  Worst part is, these large attachments often go to long lists of people.  I 
>refuse to buy an E-3 so folks can e-mail 6Gb databases to each other.  I can only 
>afford 1024k (hopefully soon to be an E-1) with the number of clients I have.  Large 
>e-mails are as bad as Kazaa.
> 
> What's wrong with Kazaa?

Well, my residential clients (small business clients too), sign a Usage Policy for 
their bandwidth that says in part they won't run servers of any kind (mail, etc.) 
without prior approval.  When Kazaa installs on a Windoze box on my network, I know 
immediately because I see lots of external connections inward sucking up all the 
bandwidth.  By default, Kazaa installs itself as a server (and apparently is telling 
the mothership it can see 11Mb of bandwidth -- that would be the wireless card) and 
the entire world descends.  Ditto for napster, et. al.  Then the lusers complain when 
I cut them off or block incoming/outgoing on the Napster/Kazaa/etc. ports.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
-- 
Focus on the dream, not the competition.
                Nemesis Racing Team motto

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