On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 06:37:57PM +0200, Lars Nood??n wrote: | (private) HKS wrote: | | > Block spam at the dialog level if possible. If it gets through, either | > dump it to /dev/null or report it to Spamcop and then dump it to | > /dev/null. | | Which is fine for spam. For mail from real accounts that have owners | stupid enough to send a binary attachment, there are the many fine | autoresponders which can 1) delete the message for you so you don't have | to see it, 2) automatically send a message (polite or impolite) to the | idiot who sent the attachment. | | E-Mail is not an acceptable surrogate for a networked filesystem. As | mentioned Kerberos, OpenAFS and Apache are part of the base distro. For | lamer, lower tech options there is always WebDAV provided by mod_dav.
Are you really saying ((SMTP != NFS) && (HTTP == NFS)) ? Are you really calling the OpenBSD porters that send new ports to [email protected] in tarballs attached to e-mails "dipshits" and "idiots" ? Are you really suggesting the use of autoresponders in an age of spammers joe jobbing the world through backscatter, poorly configured mailservers and automated mail responders ? Are you actually insane ? The fact that a technology can be used or combined with other technologies in ways the original creator did not think of used to be a sign of a great technology. Sure, it gets abused by mindless drones completely unaware of the consequences of their actions, but there may still be valid and legal uses for it. SSH was never designed for filetransfer but you can transfer files through SSH in countless ways. People doing this are "dipshits" and "idiots" ? E-mail may not be an acceptable surrogate for a networked filesystem, but you sure can easily transfer files with it. Now it's wrong to do so because Lars tells us ? Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd -- >++++++++[<++++++++++>-]<+++++++.>+++[<------>-]<.>+++[<+ +++++++++++>-]<.>++[<------------>-]<+.--------------.[-] http://www.weirdnet.nl/ [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
