On 25/11/2007, Bert Severijn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Harold, > > I have followed your proposal to use the free server and the presentation > was uploaded. > Thereafter I dowloaded it and linked it as an enclosure to the e-mail, > which I sent to myself. > > Below again a message from mailer-daemon: > > The original message was received at Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:07:33 +0100 > from smtp2.versatel.nl [62.58.50.89] > > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > (reason: 552 5.2.2 Mailbox full) > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > ... while talking to hccbackend.schonemail.nl.: > >>> DATA > <<< 552 5.2.2 Mailbox full > 554 5.0.0 Service unavailable > <<< 503 5.0.0 Need RCPT (recipient) > > Your comments please, > Bert > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > As someone else has pointed out the idea behind uploading the file to a server is to bypass e-mail restrictions. In fact that's only part of the reason. It is also partly to avoid sending the file to *everybody* on this list (several hundred people). By putting the file on a server and providing a *link* to the file (plus possible security code) you make it possible for *only* those people to download it who might want to (or be able to) help. You may not mind how many people receive your file but *they* might mind a lot.
It works the same way as when I tell you that you can download OpenOffice from http://tinyurl.com/2x6a66 The "http://tinyurl.com/2x6a66"; is a *link*. It's about 25 bytes. The file you download will be several megabytes. I'm sending you 25 bytes, not several megabytes. If I sent those several megabytes to the several hundred people on this list I'd (deservedly) be drummed out of the group. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to [email protected]
