> On Mar 9, 2006, at 11:02, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: >> On Mar 9, 2006, at 12:46 AM, Fred Moyer wrote: >> >>> Do'h! I dug around the code but couldn't find that feature, >> >> An update to the wiki would be in order if you have a minute. > > Done (I think) > >>> Anyway, it was easy enough to put together, not to mention a bit >>> of fun. >> >> That's the whole point, isn't it? :-) > > :-D
<Long Aside> Thinking about this in retrospect today perhaps I acted in a traditional system administrator mindset here, that sending big files through email is a Bad Thing and that I should try to stop that behavior. It fills up hard drives, slows down the server (maybe), and is generally not something that email is traditionally used for. Very much thinking inside the box. Then today I smacked myself on the head, and asked myself "there must be a reason people are using my email server to trade music, a reason that they would not use mechanisms such as Napster or DropSend, or Kazaa, etc". With most email clients it's very easy to compose a message and drag a file onto the email and send it. Beats any filesharing program by a wide margin for getting a file to someone quickly. There is no difference in bandwidth usage (sans bittorrent), and it requires little instruction to use. So next time I do this I will focus on something more useful which enables people to do what they want to do instead of what email is traditionally 'meant for'. Maybe a plugin which hashes the attachments and implements a shared storage repository using links so that duplicate files are not stored separately, but instead linked to the messages. A few months ago I developed a Qpsmtpd gateway to www.craigslist.org, and people said "why did you do that?". I did it because it solved a problem. I could have done it some other way but it was really easy to build using Qpsmtpd. So maybe Qpsmtpd is more than just an smtp gateway, but an API to make getting things done via email easy. Anyway, end of story :) </Long Aside> -- TaperFriendlyMusic.org Where the music never stops... http://www.taperfriendlymusic.org
