arromdee@inetnow.net said:
:On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Brazil wrote:
:> 
:> Can you imagine how it feels to have recieved 80 MB of mailbombs over the
:> weekend and not being bothered at all by it? That`s Unix. :)
:
:Actually, that's not Unix specifically, that comes from not having to download
:your mail before you process it.

    Yep.  Our local POP mail server will time out if transfers
    exceed a certain time limit.  Trying to download 80 MB of email
    over a 28.8/33.6 link is a great way to demonstrate this.  Even
    ISDN isn't fast enough for most servers.


___/^_^\___ Eugene Lee
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