Please respect the netetikette: it is NOT ACCEPTABLE to e-mail binary files
to hundreds of recipients of a mailing list as UNSOLICITED 3MB H-BOMB SIZE
JUNK!!! Yesterday evening I could not access my e-mail from home (I use a
phone line for connection), because a message of an enormous size just could
not get over the phone line. The e-mail server of the University of
Montreal gives us the limit of 1MB per mailbox (I guess other universities
have similar quotas). When I came to work this morning, I was told that ALL
THE MESSAGES in my old e-mail box had been converted into a file, put
somewhere on our UNIX server, and I had to lose one hour to go there, using
UNIX commands I am not familiar with, use ftp to transfer the compacted file
to my computer, try to open that file and try to retract the e-mail messages
that were packed together with the JUNK TIF files. (If you were so eager to
send us your image files at all cost, you could have at least compacted your
humongous TIF files into GIF or JPG formats and reduce the size
considerably...)
Wagner Yotov, University of Montreal