On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, David A. Bandel wrote: > 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.
Are you making it clear, when they sign their contract, that P2P clients are considered to be servers? This sounds like more of a user education issue than an abuse issue. I personally wouldn't consider Gnutella (and its ilk) to be servers, although i can see how they could be interpreted as such. Oh, and please fix your line wrap. It doesn't appear to be set at all right now. thanks. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
